On Feb 22, 2014, at 21:20, Paul Vixie <[email protected]> wrote: > given the number of messages in my mail repo whose bodies are in > quoted-printable or base64, or which have attachments that are binary, i've > only been able to access my stored mail, or indeed inbound mail containing > commands of some kind, with perl's "MIME" modules for some time now.
There is nothing that says we cannot undo transport encodings for text/* parts when we write store a message into a folder. And despite the prevalence of QP and base64, I still find grep works quite well for me. Anything text/* that is all base64 is almost always spam, so the base64 encoding is actually a 'feature' for me, ensuring the message doesn't generate a false positive match for what I am really looking for. If we undid the transport encodings for text/* and converted everything to utf8, you could then, e.g., alias mhgrep='env LC_ALL=en_CA.UTF-8 grep'. --lyndon _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
