MIME breaks this. If all textual parts were stored in UTF-8 on disk
things would improve once again. Perhaps even a mail/inbox/42 for a
UTF-8 summary of the email, headers and the body laid out as text where
possible, and a mail/inbox/42/... with the headers and each part as a
separate file, including sub-directories where needed, e.g.
~/mail/inbox/42/foo.png exists. Plan 9 had something along these lines.
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/4/upasfs
I thought about breaking up the MIME parts, but I decided that the
problem with that was that I believe there is value to still having the
original message around. As for something like upasfs ... well, my
answer to that is simple: have at it, my friend! If you want to make
a branch on the nmh git repo, be my guest.
--Ken
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