v4 of repairing Mixed-up mangled MIME messages

[Jameson Graef Rollins]

On Sat, Sep 14 2019, David Bremner <david at tethera.net> wrote:
> Jameson Graef Rollins <jrollins at 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.

Right, sorry, yes it should be a property.  I agree.

Any reason not to move "encrypted" and "signed" to be properties as
well?

jamie.