Re: Aging Dependencies?

>Releasing a new version with faster decoding support of encoded attachments
>would help a lot.
>Since thunderbird, outlook and apple mail users don't care about the size of
>their mail, decoding of 5MB "messages ... bloated" with
>"MIME/multipart/HTML/RichText/PDF multimedia monstrosities"
>(Michael O'Donnell) lasts long on my aged sparc/solaris environment.

If you install the metamail package (specifically mmencode) that should
speed up base64 decoding a lot.  Although it occurs to me that if you're
using a Sparc system there is probably very little you can do to speed
up your system :-/.  I feel your pain ... until a few months ago I was
using a Sparc system as my desktop ... which was end-of-lifed by Sun
back in May of 1999.

>And if I may add a second wish, solving the mangeling of utf-8/iso8859-1
>character problem mentioned by Ken Hornstein (18 Apr 2012) would be great too.
>I encounter such difficulties more and more with E-Mails I got
>from my dear colleagues.

There are two issues that came up.  The first is the font issues
that Valdis mentioned.  That is correctable if you run in a UTF-8
locale and you use UTF-8 fonts everywhere.

The second is how nmh/exmh should handle messages with incorrectly coded
character sets.  The core problem _there_ was that Andreas's message was
marked as us-ascii, but contained iso-8859.  In my experience the problems
there crop up mostly from us fossils; the messages I get from more modern
mailers generally get the character set correct.

--Ken