Since Rafal's original inquiry, I have modified the email notification logic to use quoted-printable instead of base64. Quoted-printable is not as clean as plain-old 8bit, but it is much more readable than base64. Acceptable compromise?
On 6/26/18, Rafal Bisingier <ra...@itec.com.pl> wrote: > Hi > > Richard asked me to post it on the list for discussion, so here it is: > The new email notification functionality in fossil use base64 as > Content-Transfer-Encoding. I personally prefer use of 8bit encoding, > which have a side-effect of human-readable source of message. I admit > that it does not matter much in a normal situation (reading the message > in an email client), but on a few occasions I had to grep/cat through > mailbox files, and having a readable message body was of great help > then. That's why I want to submit for consideration using a 8bit > content transfer encoding for email notifications. Nowadays there are > practically no problems in transport of such messages. The only down > side I could think of is that theoretically there is a limit of 1000 > chars in a line in an email message (and base64 encoding bypasses it). > But would it really be a bigger problem? > On the pros there is simplified debugging (no need to decode message, > which fossil store in his database file in "transport-ready" form - > so currently with base64 encoded body). Of course DRH already wrote a > tool to help in this ;-) so it is already doable without much trouble > https://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/file/tools/decode-email.c > Nevertheless I'd like to have a readable source of messages. ;-) > > -- > Greetings > Rafal Bisingier > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
