From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rmail-mbox branch Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:10:59 -0400 Message-ID: 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> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220487245 20658 80.91.229.12 (4 Sep 2008 00:14:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 00:14:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: evilborisnet@netscape.net, monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 04 02:15:00 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 1Kb2Uw-0004Jp-Hq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:14:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33353 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kb2Tw-0000dE-WE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:13:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kb2So-0007s7-G8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:12:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kb2Sn-0007qi-Mp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:12:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39788 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kb2Sn-0007qX-Ck for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:12:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:45623) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kb2Sn-0008IM-8I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:12:41 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Kb2R9-0002s2-U4; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:10:59 -0400 In-reply-to: <87iqtd4ubu.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (stephen@xemacs.org) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:103523 Archived-At: 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.