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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    [Bug 61822] New: WISHLIST: header of an received e-mail should be
From:       Alias <jerome () tc7 ! chem ! uni-potsdam ! de>
Date:       2003-07-29 20:35:53
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           Summary: WISHLIST: header of an received e-mail should be
                    editable from within kmail
           Product: kmail
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: unspecified
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kmail@kde.org
        ReportedBy: jerome@tc7.chem.uni-potsdam.de


Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1.2)

I think the function explained below would be helpful for many people receiving \
ill-formatted mail headers. (lots of web based clients use actually rather sloppy \
formatted headers)

ability to edit the header of an e-mail received or already sent.
useful because: 

a. some ?iso-8859-1? appears sometimes without being interpreted because some mailers \
send ill-formatted subjects

b. if charset isn't set to the right value by the sender
(for instance, it is needed to change options in elmrc for elm to be able to modify \
the charset message written. Certainly not very handy and many people forget to do \
so. Moreover some web based email addresses don't allow to set the charset used (they \
send it as html coded which isn't correctly interpreted by text-based e-mail readers \
as well as by kmail)

an example:
you receive an email in russian, koi8-r encoded but whose header contains \
charset=iso-8859-1 you can see the content if you change the option from "auto" to \
"koi8-r" but you'll have to do it again everytime you look at this mail. If you \
change the header to koi8-r, it'll be "cured" permanently. Of course one could do \
this by hand using a text editor. But it may be dangerous even if kmail is not \
running because of the strange names of the files (dirmail) and of the .index files. \
So the files may be displayed next time as unread.... \
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