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From: Mark Lillibridge <mdl@alum.mit.edu>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Change in rmail-insert-mime-forwarded-message
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:40:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87622o20l1.fsf@foil.strangled.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1TvGUJ-0004K5-Du@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:04:15 -0500)


Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>      > I think reverting it in the release is right.
>  
>      'f' in Rmail was dysfunctional before this fix;
>  
>  On the contrary, it was more functional.  It could forward either the
>  mime-decoded message or the raw message, and did both jobs correctly.

    I believe it did both incorrectly.  The raw message wasn't
mbox-unescaped properly and the mime-decoded message was incorrectly
placed in a RFC822 attachment (see previous email why this causes
problems).  I think Eli's real point, however, is that the need to use v
then f to forward attachments is completely nonobvious to users so
effectively Rmail doesn't support forwarding attachments pre fix in
their eyes.  Arguably, this could be addressed by a comment in the news
file but if we are going to change the user interface anyways, let's do
it only once.

- Mark




  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-23  0:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-07  2:18 Change in rmail-insert-mime-forwarded-message Richard Stallman
2013-01-07  3:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-08  2:11   ` Richard Stallman
2013-01-09 17:15     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-10  6:19       ` Richard Stallman
2013-01-10 19:03         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-07  4:43 ` Mark Lillibridge
2013-01-08  2:11   ` Richard Stallman
2013-01-08  3:57     ` Mark Lillibridge
2013-01-08 10:02       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-08 16:32         ` Mark Lillibridge
2013-01-08 18:13           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-23  0:32             ` Mark Lillibridge
2013-01-23  6:44               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-09 16:43       ` Richard Stallman
2013-01-10 16:53         ` Mark Lillibridge
2013-01-11  4:43           ` Richard Stallman
2013-01-11  8:10             ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-11 16:48               ` Mark Lillibridge
2013-01-13 22:43                 ` Richard Stallman
2013-01-14 22:43                   ` Richard Stallman
2013-01-15  2:13                     ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-15  4:01                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-15  5:27                       ` Richard Stallman
2013-01-15 16:07                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-16  0:04                           ` Richard Stallman
2013-01-23  0:40                             ` Mark Lillibridge [this message]
2013-01-15 17:29                         ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-16  0:04                           ` Richard Stallman
2013-01-16  1:14                             ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-17  6:26                     ` Mark Lillibridge
2013-01-17 21:04                       ` Richard Stallman
2013-04-01 19:06                         ` Mark Lillibridge

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