Gnus 5.8.6 not sending attachments?

[Jeronimo Pellegrini <pellegrini@iname.com>]

Hello,

  since a couple of weeks ago Gnus seems not to be including MIME
  attachemnts sometimes. I'm unsing emacs 20.6.2 and Gnus 5.8.6.

  The attachments are simply not included in the message... 

  It seems to happen with application/octet-strem.

  I tried to attach a text file (a LaTeX style), and send it to me
  (using local smtp), and I got the message without the
  attachment. Tried reconfiguring exim, didn't help. Tried also using
  a different smtp server - also, didn't help.

  I've checked teh smtp session trace, and the message really is empty
  there, so I suppose this is a MIME problem; the messages buffer is
  shown below. 

  I've been using Gnus for a few years, and the .gnus file I use has
  been working for a long time without problems. (oh, well, I switched
  from Solaris to Debian this year, but the transition ws just
  perfect). So I took a look at the file, but found nothing suspicious
  there... 
  Since this version of Gnus handles MIME natively, I removed all
  references to "mime" in my .gnus file (there were almost none), and
  it seemed to work... Until I noticed this problem.

  So, did anyone else have such a problem? Any ideas of what's going
  on? I'll try downgrading Gnus next, then I'll come back to tell you
  if that fixes the problem...

J.


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220 socrates ESMTP Exim 3.12 #1 Sat, 20 May 2000 15:00:13 -0300
250-socrates Hello jeronimo at socrates [127.0.0.1]
250-SIZE
250-PIPELINING
250 HELP
unknown extension pipelining
250 <pellegrini@mpcnet.com.br> is syntactically correct
250 <jeronimo@socrates> is syntactically correct
354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
250 OK id=12tDXp-0005uO-00
221 socrates closing connection
Sending...done


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Jeronimo Pellegrini
Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil
http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~jeronimo
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