Re: Rmail-mbox branch

[Stefan Monnier]

> MIME media-type text bodies may use Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit,
> which would allow you to save the predecoded text body.  But who
> cares?  Nobody sends multimegabyte text/plain messages; decoding per
> display is not an efficiency problem.

Indeed, decoding upon display is not a problem.  The problem that's new
for Pmail is that Rmail allows the user to edit a message, so Pmail will
need to be able to re-encode a displayed message.


        Stefan