From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Michael Reilly Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RMAIL, MIME-related bug Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:56:11 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F93E97B.9060702@pajato.com> References: <200310121947.h9CJlhKH006102@oak.pohoyda.family> <874qy4vbg7.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066658244 11460 80.91.224.253 (20 Oct 2003 13:57:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 13:57:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 20 15:57:21 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ABaXB-0000JV-00 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:57:21 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ABaXB-0000wZ-00 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:57:21 +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 1ABaWl-0006Wv-H3 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:56:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ABaWd-0006Sq-DA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:56:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ABaW7-0005wn-7W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:56:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.113.133.197] (helo=copa.pajato.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1ABaW5-0005uY-5q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:56:13 -0400 Original-Received: from pajato.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by copa.pajato.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h9KDuBxt022695; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:56:11 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030701 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:17263 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17263 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote: >Juri Linkov writes: > > > >>I see one solution to these problems - to export entire mbox to the >>file system, i.e. to save MIME parts to separate files, decode >>base64/quoted-printable regions, convert the charset from Content-Type >>line to Emacs encoding, add corresponding -*- coding: -*- line, and >>save fully decoded message to a separate file. >> >> > >And all that just to be able to use grep? Why not have the mail >reader be able to do searches for you instead? > That's the right answer. Using grep is fine to the extent that one cannot really expect grep to grok the internals of a mail application. IMAP provides a decent model for mail searching. Gnus might as well. I'm just not as familiar with Gnus as I am with IMAP. -pmr