About forward mail

About forward mail

[Shenghuo ZHU]

I did a little change in the gnus-summary-mail-forward. The default
behavior is not changed much, unless you forward a message with
multipart.  In the original version, only characters in the message
are decoded.  Now you got many options, decoding the entire MIME (`3
C-x C-f', or `C-x C-f'), keeping the message unchanged (`2 C-x C-f'),
etc.  Thoughts?

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Shenghuo

Re: About forward mail

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>:

> I did a little change in the gnus-summary-mail-forward. The default
> behavior is not changed much, unless you forward a message with
> multipart.  In the original version, only characters in the message
> are decoded.  Now you got many options, decoding the entire MIME (`3
> C-x C-f', or `C-x C-f'), keeping the message unchanged (`2 C-x
> C-f'), etc.  Thoughts?

I think MIME requires the different parts of this forwarded message to 
be encoded, ie. you should not CTE base64 the message as a whole.

If you want to keep the CTE on the message/rfc822 7bit (which is the
safe choice), you have to make sure all parts of the multipart
forwarded message are 7bit safe, ie. if you have an image/jpeg that
has CTE binary (unlikely but possible), it should be converted to
base64. 

Re: About forward mail

[Shenghuo ZHU]

>>>>> "Steinar" == Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

Steinar> If you want to keep the CTE on the message/rfc822 7bit (which
Steinar> is the safe choice), you have to make sure all parts of the
Steinar> multipart forwarded message are 7bit safe, ie. if you have an
Steinar> image/jpeg that has CTE binary (unlikely but possible), it
Steinar> should be converted to base64.

By default, Gnus will decode the MIME, and re-encode all when you send
it out, that is, the original binary (or 8bit) parts will be converted
into base64 or qp in the most cases, except that the original message
contains a binary or 8bit message/rfc822 part. It is because Gnus will
not do deep decoding.


-- 
Shenghuo