Variable: gnus-article-emulate-mime

gnus-article-emulate-mime is a customizable variable defined in gnus-sum.el.gz.

Value

t

Documentation

If non-nil, use MIME emulation for uuencode and the like.

This means that Gnus will search message bodies for text that look like uuencoded bits, yEncoded bits, and so on, and present that using the normal Gnus MIME machinery.

This variable was added, or its default value changed, in Emacs 22.1.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/gnus/gnus-sum.el.gz
(defcustom gnus-article-emulate-mime t
  "If non-nil, use MIME emulation for uuencode and the like.
This means that Gnus will search message bodies for text that look
like uuencoded bits, yEncoded bits, and so on, and present that using
the normal Gnus MIME machinery."
  :version "22.1"
  :type 'boolean
  :group 'gnus-article-mime)