From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: PJ Weisberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: improve rmail's MIME handling Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 20:19:21 -0800 Message-ID: References: <83r5e874ab.fsf@gnu.org> <83d3poaihf.fsf@gnu.org> <87eia35wqj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291263583 26811 80.91.229.12 (2 Dec 2010 04:19:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 04:19:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , emacs-devel@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, handa@m17n.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 02 05:19:38 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PO0ds-0003Dc-W3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2010 05:19:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44723 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PO0ds-00077r-Eg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:19:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59540 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PO0dm-00074m-TQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:19:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PO0dh-0001Vb-IR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:19:30 -0500 Original-Received: from smtpauth02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net ([64.202.165.182]:53676) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PO0dh-0001Uz-81 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 23:19:25 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 23771 invoked from network); 2 Dec 2010 04:19:23 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (74.125.82.49) by smtpauth02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.165.182) with ESMTP; 02 Dec 2010 04:19:23 -0000 Original-Received: by wwb17 with SMTP id 17so858891wwb.30 for ; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:19:21 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.227.128.7 with SMTP id i7mr10421788wbs.165.1291263561694; Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:19:21 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.227.57.213 with HTTP; Wed, 1 Dec 2010 20:19:21 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:133302 Archived-At: -PJ On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Richard Stallman wrote: > =A0 =A0 > I would suggest making the non-textual attachments invisible, s= howing > =A0 =A0 > only their header lines. > > =A0 =A0It's better to have a single summary line. > > Could you be less terse? =A0I don't understand what you have in mind. I believe he's suggesting that something like this: Content-Type: image/jpeg; name=3D"puppy.jpg" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=3D"puppy.jpg" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 is meaningless to almost everyone, and it would be better to show something like this: Image: puppy.jpg (137K)