Re: RMAIL: decoding messages read via movemail

[Paul Michael Reilly <pmr@pajato.com>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 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.

It sounds reasonable to me.

-pmr