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bug #15214: repl reply format doesn't cope with MIME (quoted-printable etc)

Submitter:  Peter Maydell <pm215>
Submitted:  Thu 15 Dec 2005 02:00:21 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Enhancement Severity:  1 - Wish
Priority:  * 5 - Normal Status:  None
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Closed
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Thu 31 May 2012 01:09:13 PM UTC, comment #1: 

I am marking this "closed" for now, since we now have replyfilter in the distribution.

Ken Hornstein <kenh>
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Thu 15 Dec 2005 02:00:21 PM UTC, original submission:  

[Debian bug 184606 (http://bugs.debia ... rt.cgi?bug=184606) is a subset of this.]

If you reply to a MIME-encoded message, repl doesn't do any decoding before it quotes the body text and dumps you into your editor. I think we should have some extra thing you can specify in your repl filter file (and which should be in the default one, probably) which says "select the right part of a multipart MIME mail, decode quoted-printable or base-64, and convert charset as specified by MIME header into the charset for the user's locale". (We could probably split this up into several things so you can configure it to only do some parts of the above.) Similarly, rfc2047-encoded headers should be decoded and charset-converted.

Then you edit your email as usual, and before sending MIME-processing is carried out to add a charset header and convert from locale charset into that one.

This is obviously a big chunk of work; I don't intend to actually do it until I've discussed it on the nmh mailing list a bit first.

Peter Maydell <pm215>
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