Re: [Evolution] Message saving format(s)?

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 21:17 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 11:37 -0800, Brewster Gillett wrote:
> > Suppose someone wishes to save a message to file as plain text,
> > rather than in "mbox" format?
> Which information would that plain text format [not] include compared to
> mbox format? To me, mbox *is* plain text format, as it has the all
> information in a simple text format that can be read by humans (though
> some header lines are likely very uninteresting).

Yea, I tend to agree.

The user can always click in the message body Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C ... go to
their document editor of choice and Ctrl-V.

Or drag-to-select the message header AND body [although again  - which
body?].

The truth is that an e-mail message is an envelope, headers, and
multiple [potentially nested] parts [zero, one, or several of which may
be the 'body' - and that body can reference other parts].  So there just
cannot be a e-mail-message-as-plain-text without *assuming* all kinds of
behaviors that person A is going to think is right and person B is going
to think is wrong and both A and B will be right and wrong.

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Adam Tauno Williams  GPG D95ED383
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