Re: [Nmh-workers] Reorganizing MIME functions

[Paul Vixie]

Ken Hornstein wrote:
> I don't know if anyone noticed, but I added support to burst to allow it
> to burst MIME digests (multipart/digest messages, or really anything
> containing a message/rfc822 content).  When doing this I noticed some
> things:
>
> - The MIME parser & other routines are used by a lot of programs, but they're
>   not in libmh.a.  I guess that's historical, but I am thinking that this
>   should be cleaned up.  There's some other stuff in there that would need
>   to be cleaned up as well, though.

it should be in libmh, imho.

>
> - We don't decend into message/rfc822 types to make any MIME content of
>   those messages available; should we?

yes, though that'll put some stress on our mime handling elsewhere,
since we don't have generic messagepart handling.