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. -- Adam Tauno Williams GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
