From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Francesco Potorti` Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: status of the rmail-mbox branch? Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:19:59 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20070306140127.GA4740@printf.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1173190940 9067 80.91.229.10 (6 Mar 2007 14:22:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 14:22:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Henrik Enberg Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 06 15:22:03 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HOaYB-0002Pa-6u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:22:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HOaY2-0004wb-7w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:21:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HOaXq-0004vq-91 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:21:38 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HOaXf-0004um-RK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:21:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HOaXf-0004uj-L5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:21:27 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.isti.cnr.it ([194.119.192.3]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HOaXS-0005cP-9r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:21:16 -0500 Original-Received: from conversionlocal.isti.cnr.it by mx.isti.cnr.it (PMDF V6.3-x3 #31251) id <01MDWIU0VNPC8WWBID@mx.isti.cnr.it> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:20:06 +0100 Original-Received: from tucano.isti.cnr.it (tucano.isti.cnr.it [146.48.81.102]) by mx.isti.cnr.it (PMDF V6.3-x3 #31251) with ESMTPS id <01MDWITZ0Y128WWAPC@mx.isti.cnr.it>; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:20:03 +0100 Original-Received: from pot by tucano.isti.cnr.it with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HOaWF-0005VQ-64; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:19:59 +0100 In-reply-to: <20070306140127.GA4740@printf.se> X-INSM-ip-source: 146.48.81.102 Auth Optional-NoAuth X-fingerprint: 4B02 6187 5C03 D6B1 2E31 7666 09DF 2DC9 BE21 6115 X-detected-kernel: OpenVMS 7.2 (Multinet 4.3-4.4 stack) 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:67428 Archived-At: >> What is the current status of the rmail-mbox branch? >> Does it have the same functionalities as the regular rmail? > >Not entirely. It is certainly possible to use it to read email, but is >has some deficencies in the area of coding-systems. It currently >doesn't do any decoding from raw-text at all. The main problem is that >if we want interoperability with other tools (which I guess is the main >reason to switch to the mbox format), we can't really encode the >mailboxes with emacs-mule anymore as is done with BABYL boxes. I regularly use rmail and I receive mail with various codings, most often latin-* and utf-8, but occasionally others. I use a customised rmime.el to save attachments to files. Could I get the above functionalities using rmail-mbox? Using rmime.el is not a priority if there are alternative tools allowing to save attachments from rmail.