Re: Rmail and headers in other than US-ASCII (RFC2047 encoded words)

[Satyaki Das]

Paul Michael Reilly <address@hidden> writes:

>  > I have a question about where (Rmail, or an add-on MIME-package) the
>  > feature of decoding RFC2047 (MIME Part Three) "encoded words" in
>  > headers belongs.  Example:
>  > 
>  > Subject: =?iso-8859-1?q?sm=F6rg=E5s?=
>  > 
>  > Currently, Rmail does not support decoding of RFC2047 "encoded words"
>  > in headers.
> 
> I've been doing some work on Rmail (converting to mbox format) and I
> have a goal to make Rmail handle MIME in some first class fashion.
> But I don't have a concrete plan on how I'm going to do that.

Recently, we added MIME display to MH-E (the Emacs interface to MH
mail). We used the MIME decoding and display code from Gnus and it
has worked out quite well. FWIW, I recommend reuse of Gnus MIME
display.

Satyaki