Elimination of mime/html part

[Derek Martin]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 03:27:29PM +0100, Sam Kuper wrote:
> Unfortunately, one of the weaknesses in Python's email handling (which
> might be related to some ambiguities or flaws in the RFCs on which they
> are based - I'm not sure) relates to the problem of identifying a
> "primary" (for want of a better word) text/plain part.

It's not a weakness in Python, per se.  There isn't such a thing.
That's one of the points I was trying to make before.  MIME allows for
the BODY of your message to be literally anything.  You can't
hueristically determine what the "main" part is because it doesn't
exist, except in the minds of the humans who interact with the
message... and as we've seen, their ideas about what the main part is
may differ.  And in any event, you can not do this without potentially
losing some information that is important, since many such messages
will have plain text parts that contain only garbage, where the actual
content is only in the HTML part (or even some other piece).

[The tools could assume the first plain-text part is the "main" part,
and that would be a reasonable assumption, but some of the time it
will be wrong.]

A likely better option is to compress the folder.  If HTML truly is
the bloat, it should compress very efficiently.

-- 
Derek D. Martin    http://www.pizzashack.org/   GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02
-=-=-=-=-
This message is posted from an invalid address.  Replying to it will result in
undeliverable mail due to spam prevention.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.mutt.org/pipermail/mutt-users/attachments/20200502/d3d31568/attachment.asc>