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May t be the default for nnmail-mail-splitting-decodes in Emacs? (Was: R


From: Garreau\, Alexandre
Subject: May t be the default for nnmail-mail-splitting-decodes in Emacs? (Was: Re: #<buffer *nntpd*> and split-fancy-:-unparseable base64-encoded header)
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2018 13:37:25 +0200
User-agent: Gnus (5.13), GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)

On 2018-09-23 at 13:56, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> Alexandre Garreau [2018-09-23 10:57:57+02] wrote:
>> Why isn’t this behavior the default? is there any advantage to parse
>> the yet-encoded content (maybe its encoding?) or still big issue by
>> decoding before rather than after?
>
> I don't know but I certainly think that non-nil would be better default
> for nnmail-mail-splitting-decodes. Encoded headers are the norm (MIME)
> and only decoded headers are meaningful for people and mail splitting.
> The receiver can't control whether the headers come in encoded or plain
> format.

May it be t by default in next release then? have any maintainer saw
this to give their mind?

It’d be fantastic to see once more my config shrinking because of better
defaults!



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