Re: v4 of repairing Mixed-up mangled MIME messages

Subject: Re: v4 of repairing Mixed-up mangled MIME messages

Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2019 08:30:00 -0300

To: Jameson Graef Rollins, Daniel Kahn Gillmor, Notmuch Mail

Cc:

From: David Bremner


Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins@caltech.edu> writes:

> Can we have notmuch auto-apply a tag, like the "encrypted" and "signed"
> tags, that indicates mail has been mangled in this way?  I'm feeling
> somewhat morally opposed to just silently fixing mail that's been broken
> by bad/irresponsible actors on the net.  We need to keep pushing on MS
> to fix this issue globally, so I for one would like to be reminded if
> I'm still being affected by this.

It's side point, but it should rather be a property than a tag if we do
something like that. In hindsight I think "auto tags" were probably a
design mistake, since they are (easily) mutable by users.

d
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