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Re: Rmail-mbox branch
From: |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: Rmail-mbox branch |
Date: |
Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:46:01 +0900 |
Richard M. Stallman writes:
> Forgot an important point (of course): After such a manipulation
> [undoing quoted-printable- or base64-encoded msg and hand-decoding it],
> is it clear that the file is a legitimate mbox file,
*chortle* mbox is a bastard format.
http://www.jwz.org/doc/content-length.html is the canonical reference
here.
> usable by other applications?
Usable, no. Applications that use mbox will expect the headers to be
100% ASCII; non-ASCII content must be represented as MIME-words.
MIME media-type text bodies may use Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit,
which would allow you to save the predecoded text body. But who
cares? Nobody sends multimegabyte text/plain messages; decoding per
display is not an efficiency problem.
MIME media-type multipart bodies need to be left as is, in case the
user prefers an alternative decoding in other applications.
Other MIME media-types can't be saved in decoded format, since that is
going to be an Emacs internal data-type (consider image/png).
> I am not sure. If it isn't valid as an mbox file, perhaps
> it is true that Rmail/mbox needs to do this decoding
> each time it displays the message, rather than just once
> (as some have claimed before).
s/\(It\|perhaps\) //g
> If you edit such a message, how can Rmail/mbox save the edit? Perhaps
> it needs to re-enode the changed message body in the same encoding
> that the message used.
Yes.
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, (continued)
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Evil Boris, 2008/09/01
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/09/01
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Evil Boris, 2008/09/01
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Evil Boris, 2008/09/01
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/09/01
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Evil Boris, 2008/09/02
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Paul Michael Reilly, 2008/09/03
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Richard M. Stallman, 2008/09/02
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch,
Stephen J. Turnbull <=
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Richard M. Stallman, 2008/09/03
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/09/03
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Richard M. Stallman, 2008/09/03
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/09/03
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Paul Michael Reilly, 2008/09/04
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/09/04
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Stefan Monnier, 2008/09/04
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Paul Michael Reilly, 2008/09/04
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/09/04
- Re: Rmail-mbox branch, Paul Michael Reilly, 2008/09/04