Re: [Nmh-workers] m_getfld

[Jon Steinhart]

David Levine writes:
> And Jon wrote:
> 
> # I would like any m_getfld replacement to have the ability to extract
> # information about MIME message parts which means finding headers in
> # the middle of bodies.  As per postings some years ago, I would like to
> # add code for reading attachments that needs this feature.
> 
> I think that m_getfld should retain its current interface,
> unless it needs to be fixed or can be tidied up to benefit
> those 72 callers.  It should continue to spit out header
> fields and a body.  Message parts should be provided by some
> layer, with a more natural API, that's above it.
> 
> David

Well, I'm not too concerned about the exact API for this as long as it's
reasonably doable.  Just seems to me that m_getfld is already scanning
the message, and MIME has made it so that one has to scan further in order
to get all of the "headers".  So it seems like a natural place for it.

Jon