From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RMAIL, MIME-related bug Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 16:46:20 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200310121947.h9CJlhKH006102@oak.pohoyda.family> <6480-Thu16Oct2003192118+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066423941 26620 80.91.224.253 (17 Oct 2003 20:52:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 20:52:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, alexander.pohoyda@gmx.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 17 22:52:19 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 1AAba7-0006Ew-00 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 22:52:19 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AAba6-0000ex-00 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 22:52:19 +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 1AAbZh-0007bd-Ik for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 16:51:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AAbYa-000614-UN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 16:50:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AAbXx-00059H-UG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 16:50:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AAbXx-00058Y-LG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 16:50:05 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1AAbUK-0000k3-NC; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 16:46:20 -0400 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-reply-to: <6480-Thu16Oct2003192118+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> 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:17224 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17224 I have already decided to switch to the new version of Rmail that uses mbox format instead of Babyl format. It is waiting for more testing and debugging. New MIME support needs to be designed to work with mbox format. Preserving mime messages in their original transferred format is the only acceptable way to handle them. Machines now so fast that it should not take any substantial time to decode base64 or quoted printables, so we will do that when displaying a message. So my decision is that Rmail will continue to store MIME contents in its undecoded form. Please do not keep arguing for other methods, because my mind is made up.