From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Character display problem in mumi and my mail client Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 12:49:07 +0200 Message-ID: <87sgr3fwik.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87zhlbg4aw.fsf@elephly.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37994) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ho3yQ-0005Ma-L7 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jul 2019 06:49:19 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ho3yP-000057-C9 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jul 2019 06:49:18 -0400 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21298) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ho3yO-0008SA-NS for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Jul 2019 06:49:17 -0400 In-reply-to: List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Arun Isaac Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Arun Isaac writes: >> I=E2=80=99m currently in the process of moving away from the SOAP servic= e for >> fetching message contents, because it=E2=80=99s just too painful. There= are too >> many truncated or otherwise mangled messages, and in the end we are just >> assembling them back to a good old email to parse them with Arun=E2=80= =99s >> guile-email. Going forward mumi will only use the SOAP service to get >> bug status information and pointers to messages. The actual emails will >> be fetched through the Debbugs web interface with much cursing. > > Debbugs provides complete mboxes. guile-email supports reading > mboxes. We could use that if the SOAP service is problematic. Scraping > the HTML from the Debbugs web interface is going to be a lot more > painful than the SOAP service. My development version of Guile Debbugs uses the mboxes, of course. They are, however, provided by an HTTP endpoint, which is part of the Debbugs web interface. -- Ricardo