scan can't decode the body of a message; you get the raw text output.
Which is why you see the beginning of the MIME multipart marker if your
message is a multipart. Why can't scan do that? Because no one made it
do that. SHOULD it do that? Yes, ...
i'm not sure i agree. frankly, the first-line snippet that scan
provides instead of a subject is hardly useful enough to be worth it.
i'd be just as happy if scan <<Missing Subject>> or somesuch.
You are, of course, FREE TO DO THAT! :-) That's actually pretty easy with
the existing mh-format language.
I guess my feeling is that the special %{text} component that scan provides
is useful to some people, and I find it useful on occasion. It's become
less useful since MIME became widespread. I don't see a reason it shouldn't
be more useful.
--Ken
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