Re: Rmail-mbox branch

[Paul Michael Reilly]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Indeed, decoding upon display is not a problem.  The problem that's new
> for Pmail is that Rmail allows the user to edit a message, so Pmail will
> need to be able to re-encode a displayed message.

Or tell the User that that particular encoding is not handled yet.  But 
I take your point.

-pmr