Re: [PATCH] MH-E: don't automatically download external-body parts

[Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Can you please point me to the description of the problem this tries
> to solve?

The relevant bug report is at

  https://sourceforge.net/p/mh-e/bugs/475/

In short, the problem is that if you view a message that contains an
external-body part, MH-E will immediately start downloading it, whether
the user wanted that or not.  With this fix, the user initiates the
download by clicking on the button for the external-body part.

(Sorry, I should have included more details in my original message.)

> Also, what branch of the MH-E repository will this be committed to?

I'm not sure I understand the question.  MH-E has a separate repository
for its tests and old XEmacs support, but the primary codebase is in the
main Emacs git repository.

The bug is annoying (and a privacy leak), with a simple fix that only
touches MH-E, so I'd like to push it to emacs-26, but if you'd rather
that it go to master, I'll do that instead.

thanks,
mike