On 12 Apr 2012, at 8:16, Niels Kobsch?tzki wrote: > today I tumbled over this article: > http://dewith.com/2012/this-is-the-mail-system/ > tl;dr: MUAs could interpret Mailer-Daemon mails and make them easier > readable. > Even so MailMate is a poweruser-MUA I think the idea is great :) > > What do you guys think about this article?
I think it is a good example of the desired direction of MailMate. Under the hood, MailMate is built with the intention of making it possible to filter messages through scripts at various points, e.g., before displaying them. This is already used to convert markdown or canonicalized text to HTML -- or simply to strip some whitespace from messages before replying. I would also like it to make it possible to filter MDNs (like in your link) through a script which could add HTML to what is displayed. That would make it possible to put in a sensible error description for MDNs. Some of the choices given would require some additional functionality in MailMate, but the basic idea is that a feature as described in the link should be possible to implement (to some degree) by simply extending MailMate with some scripts. I would also like PGP support to work like this although that may be tricky, because of the insertion/removal of body parts needed, i.e., built-in support (like the current limited support) may be better in this case. -- Benny
