On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 12:51:55PM -0400, Jean-Rene David wrote: > * Derek Martin [2007.03.14 19:30]: > > I consider this to be utterly and completely > > broken, and I'm considering reporting it as a > > bug, but I'm waiting to see what other people > > think. > > From my limited understanding, when a message is > mime-encoded, the *whole body* is a set of > attachments, including what you refer to as the > body, which is the part you composed before > sending the message.
It's not the encoding that I care about... it's the behavior of Mutt as I'm responding to the mail. When READING a mime-encoded message, mutt essentially treats the first plain text attachment as the message body, and does the right thing. However, when FORWARDING such a message, it does not treat this same attachment as a message body that you can respond to. How it gets encoded after I'm done with it is really irrelevant to me. The second issue is that it actually does include the HEADERS of the message in the editable body, along with the usual ---forwarded message--- blah blah... but it does not include the actual message body. I think that's definitely a bug, on both counts. If you're not going to give me the original body, what possible reason would I have for wanting the headers in the body? Including them goes against every reasonable standard for how to quote e-mail messages... If you're not sure what I mean, send yourself a message with attachments, and put something in the body. Then set mime_forward, and forward the message to yourself, and look at the message you get. I can't see any use case for the results being desirable. it's just plain yucky. CCing mutt-dev, since it seems this discussion needs to go there instead of here. Please REMOVE mutt-users if you reply. Thanks -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thank the spammers.
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