[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [Nmh-workers] Reorganizing MIME functions
From: |
Paul Vixie |
Subject: |
Re: [Nmh-workers] Reorganizing MIME functions |
Date: |
Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:47:40 -0800 |
User-agent: |
Postbox 3.0.7 (Windows/20130120) |
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.