From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Michael Reilly Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rmail-mbox branch Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:03:41 -0400 Message-ID: <48BF884D.7020605@pajato.com> References: <87zlprvod0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4868CF84.1040005@pajato.com> <48A90589.4020804@pajato.com> <48A91146.60200@pajato.com> <48A968A3.8050806@pajato.com> <48BA1DAE.2030005@pajato.com> <874p51xblf.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <84od39q9mv.fsf@boris.laptop> <84abesum0g.fsf@boris.laptop> <841w03v389.fsf@boris.laptop> <84wshvtgoz.fsf@boris.laptop> <87od363q1i.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87iqtd4ubu.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <877i9s4pf5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220511844 31748 80.91.229.12 (4 Sep 2008 07:04:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 07:04:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, evilborisnet@netscape.net To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 04 09:04:58 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kb8tl-00089n-Ea for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:04:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45044 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kb8sm-0006Kh-0o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:03:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kb8sh-0006KW-3Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:03:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kb8sf-0006K2-B4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:03:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49075 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kb8sf-0006Jz-2s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:03:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.pajato.com ([68.191.253.210]:53017 helo=copa.pajato.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kb8sZ-0001gU-Sl; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:03:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (copa.pajato.com [68.191.253.210]) by copa.pajato.com (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8473gpB003454; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 03:03:42 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080723) In-Reply-To: <877i9s4pf5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (copa.pajato.com [68.191.253.210]); Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:03:43 -0400 (EDT) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:103529 Archived-At: Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Richard M. Stallman writes: > > The alternative would be to simply declare that Rmail/mbox will *only* > > handle multipart and text/plain media, and ignore all the rest. But > > that seems a shame when Emacs is quite capable of handling a wide > > variety of media types, including text/html, text/rich-text, image, > > audio, and even video (at least with the help of external players). > > > > I am still lost. You seem to allude to some difference between > > text/plain and text/html which I am not aware of. > > It's the same difference as between text/plain and any of the other > media types mentioned: you will cannot preserve all the information in > a text/html part while saving it in mbox format. > > Rmail/mbox must be prepared to decode a message each time it is > presented. > I think that we are saying that the Rmail/mbox message presentation buffer should decode as much of the MIME pieces as it can. The task here is to make the Rmail/mime contributions a first class part of Rmail. The developer with the initials "as" started that ball rolling with (p/r)mailmm.el which is apparently based on Alexander Pohoyda's work. This is the direction I plan to take. Comments? -pmr