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 in the next release Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 13:55:11 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <1858-Mon10May2004101343+0300-eliz@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084212628 22634 80.91.224.253 (10 May 2004 18:10:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 18:10:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon May 10 20:10:15 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNFEE-0003uZ-00 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 20:10:14 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNFEE-0007S5-00 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 20:10:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BNFCI-000836-UL for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 14:08:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BNF0K-0003wV-7B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 13:55:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.34) id 1BNEzg-0003i5-QZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 13:55:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BNEzg-0003hu-JI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 10 May 2004 13:55:12 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1BNEzf-00085x-7g; Mon, 10 May 2004 13:55:11 -0400 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-reply-to: <1858-Mon10May2004101343+0300-eliz@gnu.org> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 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:23058 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:23058 IIRC, there's a special branch of Emacs where RMAIL was modified to not convert the incoming mail to the Babyl format, and instead store it in the mbox fiormat. I think there was also some support for MIME in that branch. How about merging that branch with CVS HEAD now, so that it could be part of the next release? This was waiting for me to modify unrmail so that it did not depend on Rmail. I have now done that rewrite and installed it. The new unrmail for me with a small amount of testing, but it definitely needs more. In particular I am not sure it really works right for various coding systems and not sure it handles the attributes and keywords correctly. Could people try it, and report to me that they have tried it? This needs to be tested pretty thoroughly before we switch to the new Rmail.