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Re: Sending attachments
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: Sending attachments |
Date: |
Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:39:59 +0900 |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> Could you please post a list of the features you had in mind, so that
> the effort could be estimated?
Important things:
1. Proper handling of non-ascii text. For instance:
a. Proper encoding of non-ascii headers (using "=?" notation)
b. Ability to use other transfer encodings besides 8-bit
c. Ability to automatically choose different character encodings
depending on the language/context/whatever (e.g., for many
cases, the "standard" isn't utf-8).
2. Ability to have both text and binary attachments (both are very
important), and that these work together with the language support
in part (1).
3. The ability to handle the various quirks of sending netnews as
opposed to email (they're similar in many ways, but obviously not
all).
[This presumes that we're looking at _replacing_ the current
duplicated infrastructure with something new/better -- if the
non-trivial effort is to be spent to make mail-mode really do email
correctly, it would be dumb to retain message-mode just for
handling netnews!]
Of course, message-mode already does all this properly.
My observation has been that there are lot of corner cases, and a lot of
software screws them up.
It would be very very useful to have some of the guys that actually work
on message-mode involved in this conversation, because they probably
know this stuff in much more detail -- I only know what I use as a user,
and have had problems with in the past.
-Miles
p.s. A probably unrelated problem, which made testing a bit annoying:
I can't actually send _any_ mail with mail-mode, because my ISP's
mail-forwarder rejects any messages generated with it! I'm not quite
sure what extra headers or whatever message-mode adds, but I have no
problems with mail sent using message-mode...
--
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utterance of truth and common sense.
- Re: Sending attachments, (continued)
- Reducing Gnus dependencies in message.el (was: Sending attachments), Reiner Steib, 2009/07/15
- Re: Sending attachments, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2009/07/03
- Re: Sending attachments, Chad Brown, 2009/07/04
- Re: Sending attachments, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/07/04
- Re: Sending attachments, Chad Brown, 2009/07/04
- Re: Sending attachments, Richard Stallman, 2009/07/05
- Re: Sending attachments, Daniel Pittman, 2009/07/04
- Re: Sending attachments,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: Sending attachments, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/07/04
- Re: Sending attachments, Miles Bader, 2009/07/04
- Re: Sending attachments, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/07/05
- Re: Sending attachments, Miles Bader, 2009/07/05
- Re: Sending attachments, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/07/05
- Re: Sending attachments, Miles Bader, 2009/07/05
- Re: Sending attachments, Miles Bader, 2009/07/06
- Re: Sending attachments, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/07/06
- Re: Sending attachments, Miles Bader, 2009/07/06
- Re: Sending attachments, Kenichi Handa, 2009/07/06