It's not difficult to read a multipart message. As usual, just type `SPC'.
A multipart message is marked with "M" on the left side of date as follows:
4 07/19 Shigeya-san Re: imget very fir OK, how about this?
5 M07/20 Itojun MagicPoint I made the material of
6 07/21 Motonori-san Re: imget very fir Preserving messages on P
When you type `SPC' on "5", its header is displayed in Message mode then its multipart structure is displayed in Summary mode as follows:
4 07/19 Shigeya-san Re: imget very fir OK, how about this?
5 M07/20 Itojun MagicPoint I made the material of
B 2 Image/Gif MagicPoint logo mgp.gif
Q 3 Application/Postscript Presentation Material ohp.ps
6 07/21 Motonori-san Re: imget very fir Preserving messages on P
If the first part is Text/Plain, the first part is not visualized in Summary mode but the first part is displayed with its header in Message mode.
Each line of multipart consists of
Content-Description can be considered Subject: for each part. This format is very similar to that of attachment region in Draft mode. For more information of each column, please refer to See section Composing multipart.
If you type `SPC' or `n', the cursor moves onto part 1 and the content is displayed according to its data type. For instance, Text/Plain is showed in Message mode and PostScript is visualized with ghostview
Please note that `n' and `p' moves lines including multipart. To display the message below skipping multipart, type `C-u n'. Likewise, to display the message above (not this message), input `C-u p'.
Mew processes MIME recursively. The following example is a forwarded multipart message.
501 M02/22 Itojun Fw: MagicPoint Itojun send me this
2 Message/Rfc822 MagicPoint
B 2.2 Image/Gif MagicPoint logo mgp.gif
Q 2.3 Application/Postscript Presentation Material ohp.ps
(Memo) I strongly discourage you to embed an object other than text as a top level single part to a message directly. Rather, I do recommend to make multipart whose part 1 is description text for part 2 and part 2 is an object other than text.
Mew displays a message which directory contains a single part other than text as a multipart.
Since the syntax of MIME messages can be complex, it sometime takes much time to analyze the syntax. However, Mew guesses the message to be read next and analyzes it beforehand while the user are reading the current message. Analyzed messages are cached for a while.
To notice the end of a message explicitly, Mew displays the string "[End of message]" in the end of the message. In the end of each part, Mew displays the string "[Message is continued]". (Due to the limitation of Emacs, color is not available.) This feature is not available on Emacs 19.28, Mule 2.3 based on Emacs 19.28, and etc. These strings are customized by `mew-end-of-message-string' and `mew-end-of-part-string', respectively.