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From: | Paul Michael Reilly |
Subject: | Re: Rmail-mbox branch |
Date: | Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:27:44 -0400 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080723) |
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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