Re: Rmail-mbox branch

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Paul Michael Reilly writes:

 > I think that we are saying that the Rmail/mbox message presentation
 > buffer should decode as much of the MIME pieces as it can.  The task
 > here is to make the Rmail/mime contributions a first class part of
 > Rmail.  The developer with the initials "as" started that ball rolling
 > with (p/r)mailmm.el which is apparently based on Alexander Pohoyda's
 > work.  This is the direction I plan to take. Comments?

I'm not familiar with that file.  However, there are several existing
MUAs with relevant features.  Gnus has been mentioned, VM (but it's
unlikely you'll be able to get Kyle to sign papers), MEW, Wanderlust
are all quite MIME-capable.  You might be able to borrow code,
although as in the case of Gnus you may find that the assumptions
about presentation format is sufficiently different to make that
difficult.

Besides those full-fledged MUAs, tm (tiny MIME) and SEMI are generic
MIME processing packages with add-on glue for Gnus, VM, RMail, and
MH-E (IIRC) that were abandoned in favor of direct support by VM and
Gnus, at least.

VM's internals are poorly documented, too.