Re: bug in message.el, message-forward-make-body-plain

[Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com>]

Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:

> I think your patch is the best solution.  I've installed it.

Thanks!

> It is likely if a user has set message-forward-as-mime as nil
> and uses the `C-c C-f' command.  I guess that was the mere copy
> of an old code.

Right, that's probably why.

> BTW, even for raw forwarding, isn't there a demand to remove
> some headers?  For instance, a lot of Received headers will
> usually be unnecessary.

I don't think we should remove them by default: they're useful when
forwarding spam to an abuse address, or for debugging mail loops, etc.
An inexperienced user might not know how to change the value of m-f-i-h
to get all headers back.

> Furthermore, if a header such as the following

> Xref: localhost trash:99999

> is forwarded, the person who wrote the message may be offended.
> Of course, we can remove them manually, though.

Yes, I usually remove all such headers manually.  But removing Xref
could be useful since it's internal to Gnus and not useful to anyone
apart from the sender.

-- 
Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com> | This is a man's man's man's
it's a miracle -- http://orebokech.com/ | world. --James Brown