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authorGravatar Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>2012-03-06 18:48:43 +0000
committerGravatar David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>2012-03-18 09:14:22 -0300
commitb1130bc71c02efb504ad723b56f86618fd186a67 (patch)
tree2388fd9c836c076df841182a60d9fe586f1e0b6c /man
parent7e1742a82c4b52f5337d8db53347d547a4ac67b4 (diff)
show: Convert raw format to the new self-recursive style, properly support interior parts
This is fully compatible for root and leaf parts, but now has proper support for interior parts. This requires some design decisions that were guided by what I would want if I were to save a part. Specifically: - Leaf parts are printed without headers and with transfer decoding. This is what makes sense for saving attachments. (Furthermore, the transfer decoding is necessary since, without the headers, the caller would not be able to interpret non-transfer-decoded output.) - Message parts are printed with their message headers, but without enclosing part headers. This is what makes sense for saving a message as a whole (which is a message part) and for saving attached messages. This is symmetric for whole messages and for attached messages, though we special-case the whole message for performance reasons (and corner-case correctness reasons: given malformed input, GMime may not be able to reproduce it from the parsed representation). - Multipart parts are printed with their headers and all child parts. It's not clear what the best thing to do for multipart is, but this was the most natural to implement and can be justified because such parts can't be interpreted without their headers. As an added benefit, we can move the special-case code for part 0 into the raw formatter.
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