From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rmail-mbox branch Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:28:24 +0300 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> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220326122 2725 80.91.229.12 (2 Sep 2008 03:28:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 03:28:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Evil Boris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 02 05:29:36 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 1KaMaF-0008E3-7a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:29:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56631 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KaMZF-00023I-6t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:28:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KaMZB-000234-5Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:28:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KaMZ9-00022r-4Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:28:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48489 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KaMZ8-00022o-VP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:28:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout3.012.net.il ([84.95.2.7]:54352) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KaMZ8-0002a0-M0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:28:26 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.211.50]) by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0K6J00G09TOHC6W1@i_mtaout3.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:29:05 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <841w03v389.fsf@boris.laptop> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 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:103411 Archived-At: > From: Evil Boris > Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:46:46 -0400 > > But there is a more general problem with this: I do not like losing > data or making irreversible changes. If the said msg contained another > alternative (say, HTML) that I later would discover contained some > information I needed, I am not sure how easy it would be to get it > back. That's exactly the kind of problems that the mbox branch is supposed to solve: since the original message is left in the RMAIL file, you can try decoding it any way any number of times without losing the original.