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Re: What's needed for mutt 1.6? (send multipart/alternative)




On Mar 2, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Rado S wrote:

=- Jim Allen wrote on Wed 28.Feb'07 at 20:02:57 -0600 -=

A useful feature would be providing the equivalent of the
mime_forward configuration variable but which applies to replies
(i.e.mime_reply which allows reply with attachments). This
allows one to preserve the original note and its formatting.

Why would you want to send back the original attachment(s) unchanged?
Is this a more "sophisticated" variant of TOFU quoting?

In the current mutt if one replies to a multipart/alternative e-mail and includes the original e-mail, then only the plain text portion of that e-mail is included. The rest is discarded. I have had many complain to me about this, since they prefer the html portions of the mulitpart/alternative and are unhappy with being forced to use plain text.

So mime_reply offers a simple way to handle that situation where only mutt's new response is in plain text. The previous chain of e-mail is left in it original format. So from an html e-mail
user's perspective they see the previous e-mails essentially the same.