where did we end on reformatting the mhdir to accommodate MIME?
in the past, a simple line oriented UNIX utility such as "grep -r" could
be used on the mhdir, with good results. with MIME that's no longer
true, either because of quoted-printable, base64, or nested objects.
one solution proposed for this was to add some new helper tools similar
to find(1) and/or xargs(1) which could execute line-oriented tools
within the context of defanged and decoded content.
another solution proposed would write defanged/decoded content into
files that are stored alongside the original (as received in SMTP)
content. some new option to "folder" or "sortm" could generate these for
older mhdirs, whereas inc and rcvstore would just write both forms.
i think i favoured both approaches :-). was there an end to the argument?
vixie
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