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+From: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>\r
+To: Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com>\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] doc: Clarify notmuch show --format=raw description\r
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+Quoth Mark Walters on Apr 18 at 8:23 pm:\r
+> \r
+> 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
+It's true that even "non-MIME" messages have two MIME parts. Are you\r
+thinking something like\r
+\r
+Note that even a message with no MIME structure or a single body part\r
+still has two MIME parts: part 0 is the whole message (headers and\r
+body) and part 1 is just the body.\r
+\r
+?\r
+\r
+I wonder if this would be better in the documentation for --part.\r
+\r
+> Best wishes\r
+> \r
+> Mark\r