Re: Emacs 22 branch created.

[Francesco Potorti` <pot@gnu.org>]

>  * At the moment, it is slightly worse than current Rmail when it comes
>    to non-ascii support.  

Last time I asked, I was told that I wouldn't be able to read mail
arriving in different codings, such as I normally receive.  Is that the
case?

>			    One of the major points of moving to the mbox
>    format is to be compatible with external tools, and that rules out
>    storing mailboxes in emacs-mule form, which old Rmail does.  I'm
>    still not sure what the best approach here would be here.  UTF-8?
>    Raw text?

I think it should be stored as other tools do, which I suppose it means
just as they arrive from the wire.

>  * Gnus BABYL support will break.  Since the new Rmail no longer knows
>    how to decode BABYL, neither will Gnus.  This is unfortunate, but
>    more or less unavoidable, given the way Rmail is designed.

If Rmail decodes babyl and writes it back in mbox format, maybe Gnus
could do the same.

>  * The mime support is _very_ basic, but I guess that's not really a
>    change from old Rmail.

I use the very old rmime.el.  Its most important feature is that it
decodes base64 and quoted-printable for me.  Additionally, it collapses
attachments to a single line each and allows me to save them on disk by
hitting C-cC-c on that line.  Such a very basic support would be enough
for a start.