<<< Date Index >>>     <<< Thread Index >>>

Re: Patches



On 2006-04-28 20:29:46 +0000, Rocco Rutte wrote:

> Yeah, but's not what the patch is about. It also adds
> additional configuration commands so that the user can
> define what MIME part mutt is supposed to count as 1
> attachment.

Yes, indeed.  My point was that there is one thing that you can
use this patch for (the "paper clip", as Brendan put it on IRC)
that's accomplished much easier when you are willing to accept
the occasional false positive:

>>Persoally, I don't think that this is particularly useful
>>information (and that's why I threw the feature out years
>>ago -- it's particularly nonsensical for
>>multipart/{signed,encrypted}),

> I didn't quite understand the configuration. But with the
> default configuration given as an example, only
> non-text/plain parts are counted excluding mulitpart/signed.
> I'm not sure about encrypted.

I was thinking about a simple match on multipart/* being the
top-level body type.  Of course, multipart/signed or
.../encrypted could be ignored quite easily.

-- 
Thomas Roessler · Personal soap box at <http://log.does-not-exist.org/>.