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+On Fri, 18 Apr 2014, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote:\r
+> In addition to being generally more precise, this is explicit that\r
+> there is no charset conversion.\r
+> ---\r
+> doc/man1/notmuch-show.rst | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------\r
+> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)\r
+>\r
+> diff --git a/doc/man1/notmuch-show.rst b/doc/man1/notmuch-show.rst\r
+> index bad868b..2c0f64c 100644\r
+> --- a/doc/man1/notmuch-show.rst\r
+> +++ b/doc/man1/notmuch-show.rst\r
+> @@ -76,22 +76,26 @@ Supported options for **show** include\r
+> \r
+> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html\r
+> \r
+> - **raw** (default for a single part, see --part)\r
+> - For a message or an attached message part, the original, raw\r
+> - content of the email message is output. Consumers of this\r
+> - format should expect to implement MIME decoding and similar\r
+> - functions.\r
+> -\r
+> - For a single part (--part) the raw part content is output\r
+> - after performing any necessary MIME decoding. Note that\r
+> - messages with a simple body still have two parts: part 0 is\r
+> - the whole message and part 1 is the body.\r
+> -\r
+> - For a multipart part, the part headers and body (including\r
+> - all child parts) is output.\r
+> -\r
+> - The raw format must only be used with search terms matching\r
+> - single message.\r
+> + **raw** (default if --part is given)\r
+> + Write the raw bytes of the given MIME part of a message to\r
+> + standard out. For this format, it is an error to specify a\r
+> + query that matches more than one message.\r
+> +\r
+> + If the specified part is a leaf part, this outputs the\r
+> + body of the part after performing content transfer\r
+> + decoding (but no charset conversion). This is suitable for\r
+> + saving attachments, for example.\r
+> +\r
+> + For a multipart or message part, the output includes the\r
+> + part headers as well as the body (including all child\r
+> + parts). No decoding is performed because multipart and\r
+> + message parts cannot have non-trivial content transfer\r
+> + encoding. Consumers of this may need to implement MIME\r
+> + decoding and similar functions.\r
+> +\r
+> + Note that even a message with a simple body has two parts:\r
+> + part 0 is the whole message and part 1 is the body of the\r
+> + message.\r
+\r
+Generally this looks good. I wonder whether the paragraph above could be\r
+expanded slightly: my (quite possibly flawed) understanding is that\r
+simple messages don't need to be MIME encoded (at least some messages\r
+don't contain any mention of MIME). If this is correct then I think it\r
+would be worth clarifying that this paragraph applies even to non-MIME\r
+encoded messages.\r
+\r
+Best wishes\r
+\r
+Mark\r
+\r
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+> \r
+> ``--format-version=N``\r
+> Use the specified structured output format version. This is\r
+> -- \r
+> 1.9.1\r
+>\r
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