Re: Rmail-mbox branch

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

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.