feature(s) request

[Mark Lanzo]

On  3 Jun, Rui Luís Pires <rlpires at telin.ugent.be> wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone, Martin,
> 
> this is a feature request.
>
> 1.
  <snipped>
  
> 2.
> This one is a recurrent. I would love to have the possibility to
> remove parts from a multi-part message. Something to add to
> "Show", "View source" and "Save to file" in the Message/Structure
> menu.
> 
> If you dislike vcards and 20k big cumbersome HTML messages (when
> the actual text fits in no more than 1k) as much as I do, you
> will understand why this feature would be very useful.

<aol>me too</aol>

I will second this request.  It drives me nuts when I get mail
with silly attachments like HTML, vcards, and M$-proprietary
format files. They are an incredible waste of disk space in
one's mailboxes.

The HTML problem is so endemic that I already have in place a
[rather crude] email filter which automatically deletes all
text/html attachments from inbound email before the messages
even land in my inbox, but I still find myself in need of 
a means to delete lots of other attachments.

I will add some more feature requests (apologies in advance
if any of these have already been added.  I checked the 
"changes" file but didn't spot anything suggesting that these
have already been added since the version I'm running).

3.
"View original source"

In attachment menus, it would be nice to have a variant of 
"view source" which took care of undoing things like
base64 encoding, so that one could see the actual source
that someone sent you, rather than how their mailer encrypted 
it for transmission. 

4.
Desireable to have a means of incorporating attachments from
other messages into a message one is currently composing.  

   4a) copying [properly decoded] contents of an attachment as 
       inline text into the message one is currently composing.
       
   4b) cloning an attachment.  That is, copying an attachment
       from a stored message as an attachment to the message 
       being composed

This particularly useful when one is trying to reply to 
a message where the sender made his message in the form
of multiple text attachments.

5.
A means to edit the various header fields in existing messages.

- When one keeps archives of email going back for years, with
  tens of thousands of messages, it's  nice to be able to
  change "subject:" lines into something easier to find
  when searching an archive.  Especially when senders are not
  polite enough to put good subject lines onto their messages
  to start with!

- Some mailers, especially M$-PC based ones, are so brain-damaged
  that they cannot set the MIME Content-Type correctly on attachments.
  All too frequently you see "application/octet-stream" instead of
  any meaningful hint as to what attachment really contains.

I do so love receiving plain text, converted into a MIME attachment,
MIME encoded, and then labeled as binary data ;-)



Thanks in advance, and thanks for all the time and effort put into
making this mailer.