From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>
Subject: RMAIL: decoding messages read via movemail
Date: 23 Jul 2003 12:09:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uk7a9d06c.fsf@elta.co.il> (raw)
It sounds like rmail.el currently doesn't bother to look at the
Charset= header before it decodes a message in Babyl format; it only
does that for mbox-format messages. This backfires when one fetches
email via POP with movemail, since movemail writes Babyl-format
messages in that case. Quoted-printable decoding is also not done for
Babyl-format messages, so movemail/POP loses again.
In addition, if the message is encoded in base64, rmail doesn't decode
it as it does with quoted-printable. This loses with some wacky mail
servers (such as Exchange) that tend to encode messages with non-ASCII
characters in base64, even if the message has only a single part and
uses 8-bit charsets perfectly suitable for quoted-printable.
Would it be a good idea to fix these deficiencies? I have a patch to
rmail.el that fixes all of them (I'm using the patched rmail for the
last couple of months). If the idea sounds reasonable, I will install
the changes in the CVS.
next reply other threads:[~2003-07-23 10:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-23 10:09 Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2003-07-23 13:46 ` RMAIL: decoding messages read via movemail Paul Michael Reilly
2003-07-24 20:00 ` Richard Stallman
2003-07-25 6:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-07-25 21:45 ` Richard Stallman
2003-07-26 9:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-07-28 8:39 ` Richard Stallman
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