From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rmail-mbox branch Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:55:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87zlprvod0.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <84abesum0g.fsf@boris.laptop> <841w03v389.fsf@boris.laptop> <84wshvtgoz.fsf@boris.laptop> <87od363q1i.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87iqtd4ubu.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <877i9s4pf5.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87hc8vf97n.fsf@xemacs.org> <878wu3fd4r.fsf@xemacs.org> <87fxoa112r.fsf@xemacs.org> <87ljy0z7q9.fsf@xemacs.org> <48C7B2C6.9030409@pajato.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221069327 10873 80.91.229.12 (10 Sep 2008 17:55:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:55:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Stephen J. Turnbull" , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Michael Reilly Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 10 19:56:22 2008 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 4.50) id 1KdTvO-0001IF-T2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:56:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43543 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KdTuO-0001xz-LN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:55:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KdTuJ-0001rh-Cg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:55:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KdTuI-0001qR-PT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:55:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58032 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KdTuI-0001qF-L4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:55:10 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:17490) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KdTuE-0004I2-KY; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:55:06 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhwGABinx0hFxIqP/2dsb2JhbACBZbcogWSBBg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.32,373,1217822400"; d="scan'208";a="26620330" Original-Received: from 69-196-138-143.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.138.143]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 10 Sep 2008 13:55:05 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id AF71E85E5; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:55:05 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <48C7B2C6.9030409@pajato.com> (Paul Michael Reilly's message of "Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:43:02 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:103775 Archived-At: >> ... and as I pointed out to Stefan, for many users it would be >> very convenient and would cause no harm to transcode the headers too. > I could not chase down that message and I'm a little confused about > transcoding headers to the extent that I understand them to be ASCII > per rfc2822. About the only way it would make sense to me to talk He was simply suggesting to do away with strict rfc2822 compliance. After all, it's common for email headers to contain latin-1 text without encoding it with QP as it should. Most MTAs will preserve this 8bit info, and most MUAs will try and do something useful with it (like assume it's encoded in the locale's favorite encoding). It'd most likely be controlled by a config var, since it's useful but somewhat dangerous. Stefan