From: Wybo Dekker <wybo@...>
Date: 2005-12-07T18:51:52+09:00
Subject: Re: bug in mailread.rb, and: proposal for Mail#to_s

On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, daz wrote:

> Wybo Dekker wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> >
> > > I think to_s is not sufficient for string representation of whole mail
> > > body.  It's just too long.  I agreed to add a new method to do this
> > > work.  Any name suggestion?
> >
> >
> > [  # Return a Mail object, ready to print, [...]  ]
> 
>  def to_print
>     ...
>  end

this suggests that it's meant for printing. Actually, it is the reverse of 
what mailread does.
mailread reads the information of an e-mail message from an mbox file
into a Mail object.
The proposed method re-assembles this information into a string (perhaps
after editing it), ready be to written (back) to an mbox file. Hence my
proposal to name it to_s or assemble. 

How about to_mbox ?

Another point which should be considered is that mailread drops all
Receiver: fields except the last one. This is fine for me, but if I
were, for example, the developer of a mail reading application (like
pine or mutt) in Ruby, I wouldn't be happy with that... but maybe it's
considered stupid to do such developments in Ruby.

-- 
Wybo