From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/62880 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: gdt@work.lexort.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Mime types and attached files Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 07:40:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145274096 21748 80.91.229.2 (17 Apr 2006 11:41:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:41:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+m11407@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Apr 17 13:41:35 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FVS6f-00075x-9o for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:41:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FVS6Z-0000qf-00; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 06:41:19 -0500 Original-Received: from nas01.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.39]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FVS6F-0000qZ-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 06:40:59 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas01.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FVS6E-00039W-2V for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 06:40:59 -0500 Original-Received: from linuxpal.mit.edu ([18.62.1.14]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1FVS6D-0000CO-00 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:40:57 +0200 Original-Received: by linuxpal.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 9545) id E0308146; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 07:40:51 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:04:59 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) X-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:62880 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Katsumi Yamaoka writes: > >> However, I must evaluate the form[1] >> >> (defalias 'mail-header-encode-parameter 'rfc2047-encode-parameter) >> >> when sending files with Japanese names in business. That's very >> annoying, though I never want to make it the default (so, I >> restore it into `rfc2231-encode-string' after sending a mail). > > Well -- why not make it the default? We know that a large number of > mail readers out there don't support RFC2231, and we know that most > mail readers support RFC2047 parameter decoding. (Are there any that > don't? I mean, that don't support RFC2047 parameter encoding, but do > support RFC2231?) > > So to make life easier for everybody I propose making > `rfc2047-encode-parameter' the default. It would be cool to have BBDB notice MUAs used by correspondents and record them all, and have a function to choose an encoding based on that. That way the standards could still be followed by default, with accomodation for lame/unstandard MUAs. But not everyone uses BBDB. -- Greg Troxel