Re: More On Mime

[Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>]

>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no>:

> I've now had a peek at Ray Moody's rmime.el, and I'm very impressed by
> it.  By the comments in it, I mean.  I've never seen such a
> well-commented package before in my life.  It seems to be doing what
> it's supposed to be doing as well, so I think it can be used for my
> nefarious purposes.  The problem is the copyright situation, but that
> looks like it might work out.  Stay tuned.

You plan to replace metamail with elisp stuff, I hope? (Or doesn't
rmime.el need metamail anymore? I haven't used it since my VM days
(which was before my mh-e days (which was before my (current) Gnus
days)))

> William Perry's mm.el handles mailcap parsing well, and has lots of
> MIME support functions, so I think if I basically take these two works
> and squish them together (and add some more stuff), we should have
> that simple MIME library with that interface I outlined earlier.

Nice! But when you have this we'll start an undying thread about how
we would like to see MIME stuff presented...:-)