Re: strip extraneous CR characters

[Stefan Monnier]

> IMAP has CR characters explicitly in the standard.  imap.el passes
> those down in every message body and in the headers.

To my naive eye, it looks like a misfeature of imap.el.

> I don't know why imap.el doesn't use automatic EOL decoding (perhaps
> to preserve every aspect of the original data).

My guess is that this design is inherited from pre-Mule times where
CRLF->LF decoding was better done once and for all in the
backend-agnostic code of Gnus.

In any case, I think you'll find that your functions are pretty
Gnus-specific, for that reason.


        Stefan