bug#4624: 23.1.50; rmail-edit may add incorrect content-type header
Markus Rost <[email protected]> Sat, 3 Oct 2009 16:55:21 +0200 (CEST)
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In rmail look at a message (from an mbox file) with content-type multipart, e. g., with headers like Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="bbbbbbbbbbb" Edit that message within rmail as usual with rmail-edit-current-message and rmail-cease-edit. After saving, the message has an *additional* header like Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii This is bad, since mail readers may not handle the message correctly as multipart anymore. The reason is that rmail-cease-edit uses rmail-mime-charset-pattern to identify content-type headers, but rmail-mime-charset-pattern will match by default only text/plain. I am not sure how to fix this. Ideally rmail-cease-edit should walk through all the parts of a message when handling the coding, but that looks very complicated. Maybe for now rmail-cease-edit should handle the coding only if there is no content-type header or if the content-type is matched by rmail-mime-charset-pattern, leaving the other cases to the responsibilty of the user. In GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.1) of 2009-10-02 on laptop Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10600000 configured using `configure '--prefix=/home/rost/local/cvs'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: C value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default enable-multibyte-characters: t