Re: Emacs 22 branch created.

[Richard Stallman]

    > Or it would mean decoding it in a separate buffer, which has
    > its own big inconveniences.

    What are they?

C-x b RMAIL RET stops working, for one thing.
That in itself is a pain in the neck.

    > I think it should decode a message when it is first visited (and the
    > extra header that Rmail saves data in is constructed).

    And then what? how do you store the decoded message so that it is
    still in mbox format?

I do not see the issue.  The file is always in mbox format.  Decoding
the message contents doesn't alter the overall file format.