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Re: status of the rmail-mbox branch?
From: |
Francesco Potorti` |
Subject: |
Re: status of the rmail-mbox branch? |
Date: |
Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:19:59 +0100 |
>> 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.