Re: C-c C-f and MIME

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> I want to forward a message inline as text, without any MIME at all. How?
>>
>> C-u 1 C-c C-f below seem to be what I want, but if the article I'm
>> forwarding contains multiparts, some mml code is inserted and the
>> resulting mail will contain multiparts.  I can't find any combination of
>> prefix args or `message-forward-as-mime', `message-forward-show-mml'
>> settings that does what I want. Is it a bug in ARG 1 or do we really want
>> yet another prefix arg to C-c C-f to forward decoded articles without
>> MIME?
>
> In this case, ARG 1 is not so useful.  The problem is how to present
> the MIME parts in a plain text message. Only the content of the
> article buffer?  Thoughts?

Yes, the contents of the article buffer would be OK (if it inlined all
unexpanded parts first).  Without MIME buttons, or the security
buttons, preferably.

Which reminds me of an older discussion -- about the PGP/SMIME
buttons.  I kind of agree that they take up too much screen space in
the *Article* buffer.  Maybe we could use the Emacs 21 fringe for
this?  It could indicate which lines of the message were
encrypted/signed (using black/red/green to indicate unknown/bad/good
status?).  Dunno about XEmacs though.