Re: emails with [cid]

[Suresh Kumar <sureshkumar.pp@gmail.com>]

Hi

At Fri, 14 May 2010 14:06:03 -0700,
Erik Hetzner wrote:
> 
> [1  <text/plain; US-ASCII (7bit)>]
> At Fri, 14 May 2010 11:07:45 -0700,
> John Owens wrote:
> >
> > This has bugged me for a long while with wl. I get emails that look
> > like the following with inlined images:
> >
> > [1  <multipart/alternative (7bit)>]
> > [1.1  <text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>]
> >
> > [cid:080265817@14052010-2BF6]
> >
> > [cid:080265817@14052010-2BFD]
> >
> > [1.2  <text/html; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>]
> >
> > They look fine in, say, Google Mail. If I "v" the text/html, it shows
> > broken links for the images. If I "v" the text/plain, it says no
> > method for text/plain (as expected). If I "e" the text/plain, it just
> > gets the text including the [cid:xxx] text.
> >
> > I'd be happy to either inline the images in wl or have links I can
> > click to launch them in a viewer.
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> Do you use w3m? (require 'mime-w3m) It is supposed to be able to use
> these embedded images.
> 

I use wl in emacs -nw, so do you have any suggestion for a fix?

I usually 'v' the text/html and open it in conkeror, but those cid
images appear broken.

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