From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Garreau\, Alexandre" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: May t be the default for nnmail-mail-splitting-decodes in Emacs? (Was: Re: # and split-fancy-:-unparseable base64-encoded header) Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2018 13:37:25 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87bm8ohhpk.fsf@iki.fi> <0k9dzwzzzzzz.54d.xxuns.g6.gal@galex-713.eu> <87in2w32is.fsf@iki.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1537702536 17443 195.159.176.226 (23 Sep 2018 11:35:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2018 11:35:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus (5.13), GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) To: Teemu Likonen , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 23 13:35:32 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g42fj-0004QA-SJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2018 13:35:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40156 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g42hq-0006Vt-5a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2018 07:37:42 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56749) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g42hd-0006QU-SL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2018 07:37:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g42hd-0000Cp-7D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2018 07:37:29 -0400 Original-Received: from portable.galex-713.eu ([2a00:5884:8305::1]:47044 helo=galex-713.eu) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g42hc-0000Ai-WC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Sep 2018 07:37:29 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=galex-713.eu) by galex-713.eu with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1g42hZ-0002ch-TH; Sun, 23 Sep 2018 13:37:25 +0200 X-GPG-FINGERPRINT: E109 9988 4197 D7CB B0BC 5C23 8DEB 24BA 867D 3F7F X-Accept-Language: fr, en, it, eo In-Reply-To: <87in2w32is.fsf@iki.fi> (Teemu Likonen's message of "Sun, 23 Sep 2018 13:56:59 +0300") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2a00:5884:8305::1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:230003 Archived-At: On 2018-09-23 at 13:56, Teemu Likonen wrote: > Alexandre Garreau [2018-09-23 10:57:57+02] wrote: >> Why isn=E2=80=99t this behavior the default? is there any advantage to p= arse >> the yet-encoded content (maybe its encoding?) or still big issue by >> decoding before rather than after? > > I don't know but I certainly think that non-nil would be better default > for nnmail-mail-splitting-decodes. Encoded headers are the norm (MIME) > and only decoded headers are meaningful for people and mail splitting. > The receiver can't control whether the headers come in encoded or plain > format. May it be t by default in next release then? have any maintainer saw this to give their mind? It=E2=80=99d be fantastic to see once more my config shrinking because of b= etter defaults!