From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Michael Reilly Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RMAIL: decoding messages read via movemail Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:46:44 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F1E91C4.3030404@pajato.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1058968337 22802 80.91.224.249 (23 Jul 2003 13:52:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 13:52:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 23 15:52:10 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19fK2M-0005v8-00 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:52:10 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19fKK0-0008HI-00 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:10:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19fJyN-0001m4-Mi for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:48:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19fJxs-00019R-4c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:47:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19fJxJ-0008Df-2h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:47:27 -0400 Original-Received: from copa.pajato.com ([209.113.133.197]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19fJxA-0007tr-Jl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:46:48 -0400 Original-Received: from pajato.com ([12.38.10.128]) by copa.pajato.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h6NDkiah021578; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:46:45 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:15686 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15686 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