Re: Rmail and headers in other than US-ASCII (RFC2047 encoded words)

[Richard Stallman]

     > but it has a dependency on mail-parse found in the gnus subdirectory.
     > I'm not sure if mail-parse is to be considered independent of Gnus
     > (though it seems to be documented as such in the Emacs MIME info
     > documentation), and even then it's questionable if it's appropriate to
     > have Rmail depend on it.
     > 
     > There's always the option of implementing the functionality in Rmail
     > itself, if the dependency is undesirable.

    It seems to me that the function has general use.  I'm not sure where
    it belongs, but it seems pretty clear that it should not be homed in
    gnus for general consumption.  Maybe Richard will have some insight
    here.

If mail-parse is self-contained and generally useful, we can move
it out of Gnus.