Re: RMAIL, MIME-related bug

[Paul Michael Reilly]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:
>
>  
>
> > I see one solution to these problems - to export entire mbox to the
> > file system, i.e. to save MIME parts to separate files, decode
> > base64/quoted-printable regions, convert the charset from Content-Type
> > line to Emacs encoding, add corresponding -*- coding: -*- line, and
> > save fully decoded message to a separate file.
> >    
>
> And all that just to be able to use grep?  Why not have the mail
> reader be able to do searches for you instead?
That's the right answer.  Using grep is fine to the extent that one 
cannot really expect grep to grok the internals of a mail application.  
IMAP provides a decent model for mail searching.  Gnus might as well.  
I'm just not as familiar with Gnus as I am with IMAP.

-pmr