Re: Change in rmail-insert-mime-forwarded-message

[Mark Lillibridge]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>      > I think reverting it in the release is right.
>  
>      'f' in Rmail was dysfunctional before this fix;
>  
>  On the contrary, it was more functional.  It could forward either the
>  mime-decoded message or the raw message, and did both jobs correctly.

    I believe it did both incorrectly.  The raw message wasn't
mbox-unescaped properly and the mime-decoded message was incorrectly
placed in a RFC822 attachment (see previous email why this causes
problems).  I think Eli's real point, however, is that the need to use v
then f to forward attachments is completely nonobvious to users so
effectively Rmail doesn't support forwarding attachments pre fix in
their eyes.  Arguably, this could be addressed by a comment in the news
file but if we are going to change the user interface anyways, let's do
it only once.

- Mark