From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: RMAIL, MIME-related bug Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 18:06:27 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <9743-Thu16Oct2003180627+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> References: <7137-Thu16Oct2003085921+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <14020.1066290086@www64.gmx.net> <2914-Thu16Oct2003132048+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <200310161436.h9GEaQZQ025452@beta.mvs.co.il> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066320814 14980 80.91.224.253 (16 Oct 2003 16:13:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:13:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: alexander.pohoyda@gmx.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 16 18:13:31 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AAAkl-0003iN-00 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 18:13:31 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AAAkl-0006WB-00 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 18:13:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AAAjt-0008GU-5d for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:12:37 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AAAjN-00088X-1f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:12:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AAAiY-0006nK-FI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:11:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.23] (helo=aragorn.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AAAiM-0006H5-0p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:11:02 -0400 Original-Received: from zaretski ([80.230.156.210]) by aragorn.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.3.7-GR) with ESMTP id BQV01677; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 18:10:53 +0200 (IST) Original-To: ehud@unix.mvs.co.il X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: <200310161436.h9GEaQZQ025452@beta.mvs.co.il> (ehud@unix.mvs.co.il) 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:17157 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17157 > Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 16:36:26 +0200 > From: "Ehud Karni" > > It is important if you wish to run external command on it. I use > metamail frequently on the mail buffer. With the current `rmail' I > use the `rmail-edit-current-message' function to restore (almost) the > original message (it has the `x-Coding-System' line added and the > Mail-from: pseudo header prefixed). It is also decoded into the Emacs internal representation of characters, so you don't have the original message anyway (unless it's pure ASCII). > Also, you need the mail in its "undisturbed" form, if you want to > resend it like a mail-relay (another function that I use a lot). That's why in the past discussions of this issue someone suggested to redesign RMAIL along the lines of Gnus: leave the original message alone, and produce the reformatted one in a separate buffer. This is actually the main reason I asked Alexander to take this discussion here. However, it sounds like Alexander has no intent to follow Gnus, and no one else raised that problem either (until now).