From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alexander Pohoyda Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RMAIL, MIME-related bug Date: 16 Oct 2003 23:18:39 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <874qy8khjk.fsf@oak.pohoyda.family> References: <2914-Thu16Oct2003132048+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <28709.1066310095@www21.gmx.net> <8011-Thu16Oct2003180244+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066339383 3995 80.91.224.253 (16 Oct 2003 21:23:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 21:23:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 16 23:23:01 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 1AAFaH-0003fS-00 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 23:23:01 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AAFaG-0006yB-00 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 23:23:01 +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 1AAFYT-0006R6-Ku for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 17:21:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AAFXS-0004uh-F5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 17:20:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AAFWg-0003WT-HI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 17:19:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [213.165.64.20] (helo=mail.gmx.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AAFWC-0003Cn-JQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 17:18:48 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 7933 invoked by uid 65534); 16 Oct 2003 21:18:45 -0000 Original-Received: from p508BEA30.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO oak.pohoyda.family) (80.139.234.48) by mail.gmx.net (mp026) with SMTP; 16 Oct 2003 23:18:45 +0200 X-Authenticated: #14602519 Original-Received: from oak.pohoyda.family (oak.pohoyda.family [127.0.0.1]) by oak.pohoyda.family (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9GLIh5d001846; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 23:18:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from alexander.pohoyda@gmx.net) Original-Received: (from apog@localhost) by oak.pohoyda.family (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h9GLIer8001843; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 23:18:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from alexander.pohoyda@gmx.net) X-Authentication-Warning: oak.pohoyda.family: apog set sender to alexander.pohoyda@gmx.net using -f Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <8011-Thu16Oct2003180244+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Lines: 43 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:17176 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17176 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: > > Because, after reformatting it is not a MIME message anymore! > > So? We are not sending that text as-is to any MTA, are we? No, I have never done that, but remember the problem with exporting an email to the Unix mail file. Who knows how else we could use the email would it be not reformatted. > We are just processing the text locally. So we don't need to comply > to MIME standards, do we? Right, we don't have to, but why not to if that significantly simplifies the processing? > > OK, this may not be that important. I just don't see a reason why do we > > have to reformat the message just to ignore this reformatting later. > > Reformatting only introduces an obstacle. Why to do that? > > I think it eases further processing elsewhere in RMAIL. Who may know that for sure? > IIRC, many > RMAIL functions need to access the headers and the body separately. No problems with that. I am not going to change it. > Of course, it is also possible to avoid that reformatting, but then > your job will become much bigger, I think. Yes, I will have to modify some Rmail functions, but the result, I'm sure, is well worth the effort. -- Alexander Pohoyda PGP Key fingerprint: 7F C9 CC 5A 75 CD 89 72 15 54 5F 62 20 23 C6 44