Re: Rmail-mbox branch

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > 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.

> Isn't it possible to use some of Gnus' functionality to compose a
> MIME-correct mail?

Of course, there is, in the sense that several pieces of the puzzle are
already written, but there's still a fair bit of glue to write.  For one
thing, Gnus's mime-composition uses a different input format than Gnus's
mime-display output-format.

Then of course, there's the issue of making sure that the encoding is
done reliably without any loss of information, which probably means that
the decoding itself should be careful to preserve all the information.


        Stefan