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Editing email replies
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pd |
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Editing email replies |
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Fri, 30 Aug 2002 03:15:22 GMT |
I've been thinking about how to edit replies to MIME messages that use
multipart/alternative. For example, suppose the message has a text/plain
alternative and a text/html alternative, as shown below. When I insert some
plain text in my reply, I'd really like the resulting message to have the
two alternatives for the text before my insertion, then my insertion in
plain text, and then the two alternatives after my insertion.
In other words, I want to go from:
multipart/alternative
text/plain
text/html
to
multipart/mixed
multipart/alternative
text/plain
text/html
text/plain <--- my reply!
multipart/alternative
text/plain
text/html
I've shown this in more detail below, but that's the general idea.
Essentially, I want to split the alternative part into two, and put my
text/plain reply in between them.
So, is there a way to do this? I'm planning to use emacs, but I don't know
if there's a suitable mode for editing messages that does this.
Thanks very much,
-pd
Detailed example follows. I hope it's correct.
============= Before editing =============
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----BAR"
...
------BAR
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
This is the first line of the original message.
This is the second line of the original message.
------BAR
Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
<HTML>
<BODY>
<BR>This is the first line of the original message.
<BR>This is the second line of the original message.
</BODY>
</HTML>
------BAR
============= After editing =============
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--FOO"
--FOO
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----BAR"
...
------BAR
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
This is the first line of the original message.
------BAR
Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
<HTML>
<BODY>
<BR>This is the first line of the original message.
</BODY>
</HTML>
------BAR
--FOO
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
My insertion between the first and second lines goes here.
--FOO
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----BAR"
------BAR
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
This is the second line of the original message.
------BAR
Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
<HTML>
<BODY>
<BR>This is the second line of the original message.
</BODY>
</HTML>
------BAR
--FOO
- Editing email replies,
pd <=