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Re: Rmail-mbox branch


From: Paul Michael Reilly
Subject: Re: Rmail-mbox branch
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:27:44 -0400
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Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Stefan Monnier writes:

 > > 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.

Yup.

Continuing to maintain Rmail, even with a more-commonly-used mailbox
format, is going to be an ongoing headache IMO.

Tell me about it! My headache is already pounding. After using Rmail/VM/Eudora/Gnus/Evolution/Pine/Netscape Mail/Kmail/Thunderbird and probably a few other clients, I always come back to the conclusion that Rmail was the most satisfying for me (except for IMAP support, which is my long term goal and a whole different topic that will start to get addressed when Rmail/mbox has replaced Rmail/babyl). Your comments have been helpful. Keep 'em coming. It's aspirin for sure.

-pmr






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