> On Mar 8, 2016, at 6:19 PM, Ken Hornstein <k...@pobox.com> wrote: > > Let me explain my larger view. I know lots of people still want to be > able to use Unix text processing utilities on a MH store. But I hate > to be the the one who has to explain this ... that hasn't been a realistic > goal since the advent of MIME. The model that "email is text" just > isn't valid anymore.
No, that's not true. We could decode on inc(1) to UTF-8. Every other MUA (effectively) does that these days. Yes, I have argued for and against this in the past, specifically against the crypto-signature-breakage. But really, what are the odds? I would rather we decode all the MIME-encoding crap, and wherever possible, translate text/* to utf-8 according to the charset parameter indications in the mime part. This means grep(1) continues to work. I will deal with grep facing binary message blobs. I can strings <msg> | grep foo to get around that. Strings can't fix QP or base64. --lyndon _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers