Julian Bradfield writes: > What do you mean by an illegal character? Why would you want to stop > decoding of, say, PDFs to binary? It would save time and space later. > The main problem with textual search is that the character encoding > may vary from message to message, and even from part to part within a > MIME message. Because VM folders are, and have to be, binary, you > can't search for non-ASCII characters within a folder. I don't see a > good solution to this, excepting transcoding everything to utf-8 > before saving.
I think it is only the text parts that concern us here, because we want to be able to search for text. Saving the folders in UTF-8 or whatever (the actual coding system doesn't matter), in a non-RFC format, seems to be needed to support search. Does anybody know how the other mail clients do it, e.g., Thunderbird? Cheers, Uday
