Demi M. Obenour <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2020-03-05 20:58, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > Saying so doesn't make it happen. *ALL* the pieces must be prepared, > > then it can change. If everything isn't ready, then why would we not > > stick to the status quo? In my view, this issue is small compared to > > some incoherent mailfile here maildir there and shrug situation. It > > sounds like you have a plan. Want to execute *ALL OF IT*? > > Adding a flag to mail.local(8) to reversibly quote messages is trivial; > I can prepare a diff when I have time. Adding a command to mail(1) > to undo this quoting should not be hard either.
You are proposing a needless incompatibility for what reason? > That said, my research indicates that Thunderbird (at least) uses > quoted-printable encoding to avoid problems with the existing mbox > format, and mutt can be told to do so. Furthermore, at least mutt > would break if this change was made. Therefore, this flag should be > disabled by default. So you want to add something that can't be used? Grea.t....
