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Non-MIME ​

Gnus also understands some non-MIME attachments, such as postscript, uuencode, binhex, yenc, shar, forward, gnatsweb, pgp, diff. Each of these features can be disabled by add an item into mm-uu-configure-list. For example,

emacs-lisp
(require 'mm-uu)
(add-to-list 'mm-uu-configure-list '(pgp-signed . disabled))

postscript ​

PostScript file.

uu ​

Uuencoded file.

binhex ​

Binhex encoded file.

yenc ​

Yenc encoded file.

shar ​

Shar archive file.

forward ​

Non-MIME forwarded message.

gnatsweb ​

Gnatsweb attachment.

pgp-signed ​

PGP signed clear text.

pgp-encrypted ​

PGP encrypted clear text.

pgp-key ​

PGP public keys.

emacs-sources ​

Emacs source code. This item works only in the groups matching mm-uu-emacs-sources-regexp.

diff ​

Patches. This is intended for groups where diffs of committed files are automatically sent to. It only works in groups matching mm-uu-diff-groups-regexp.

verbatim-marks ​

Slrn-style verbatim marks.

LaTeX ​

LaTeX documents. It only works in groups matching mm-uu-tex-groups-regexp.

Some inlined non-MIME attachments are displayed using the face mm-uu-extract. By default, no MIME button for these parts is displayed. You can force displaying a button using K b (gnus-summary-display-buttonized) or add text/x-verbatim to gnus-buttonized-mime-types, See MIME Commands in Gnus Manual.