From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: RMAIL, MIME-related bug Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 00:54:01 +0200 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <1858-Wed08Oct2003005401+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> References: <200310071929.h97JT30s003319@oak.pohoyda.family> <2427-Tue07Oct2003232110+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <200310072214.h97MEcsU004273@oak.pohoyda.family> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1065567790 30824 80.91.224.253 (7 Oct 2003 23:03:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 23:03:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 08 01:03:08 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A70rE-0003Cu-00 for ; Wed, 08 Oct 2003 01:03:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A70qD-0007Ii-Bn for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2003 19:02:05 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A70pr-0006mS-Fz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2003 19:01:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A70p1-0004zb-G4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2003 19:01:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.15] (helo=balder.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A70mF-0003PU-LD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2003 18:57:59 -0400 Original-Received: from zaretski ([80.230.148.47]) by balder.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.3.7-GR) with ESMTP id CUZ07450; Wed, 8 Oct 2003 00:57:55 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Alexander Pohoyda X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: <200310072214.h97MEcsU004273@oak.pohoyda.family> (message from Alexander Pohoyda on Wed, 8 Oct 2003 00:14:38 +0200 (CEST)) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:5931 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:5931 > Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 00:14:38 +0200 (CEST) > From: Alexander Pohoyda > > I have found a variable called rmail-enable-mime, and some void > variables of type rmail-*-mime-* which don't fit into my > implementation and I don't understand why they are here anyway. IIRC, this is for add-on packages that add MIME support to RMAIL. > 2) If I save an email to the file, I want it to be the same message > as RMail read from my mailbox. I want to be able to read it from > another mail client, for example. Someone wrote code to do that, but it's currently on a separate branch of the Emacs CVS. I suggest to leave this issue alone, not to mix it with the other changes you did. > 3) I agree that some action (transfer-/charset decoding, PGP signature > verification, etc.) is OK to do once in function called from > rmail-convert-to-babyl-format, but some other (picture previews, > big attachement hiding, etc.) should be done by every (?) > rmail-show-message call. I suggest to discuss this (on emacs-devel). There are trade-offs here that IMHO are not so trivial to resolve.