Re: automatic base64 conversion for rmail?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 16:35:16 +0200
> From: Francesco Potorti` <address@hidden>
> 
> Apperently RMAIL converts base64 messages automatically, but does not
> changes the Content-Transfer-Encoding header accordingly.
> 
> To reproduce:
> - download http://fly.isti.cnr.it/tmp/base54.mbox (I am appending it to
>   the end of this mail, but I am not sure it will arrive intact)
> - emacs -Q
> - C-u M-x rmail RET base64.mbox RET
> 
> You can read the mail without problems, while with Emacs 21 you could
> only see the base64-encoded message.  This is nice and good, but the
> decoded message keeps its
>  Content-transfer-encoding: base64
> header intact.  This header should be changed to
>  Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit

Thanks for the report, I will look into this ASAP.