My users mostly use thee MH/nmh mail systems. They don't handle MIME or base64 very well. They couldn't grep through messages, since the base64 messages contain no plain text.
Observation
Several users subscribed to the whole wiki. They set up scripts to grep for particular changes and filter mail based on that. The scripts never fired, because the mail is all base64-encoded. They expected ASCII-like changes to ASCII-like pages to produce ASCII-like messages.
Task
Reading and using change-notification messages.
Users
These are programmers, Unix geeks. They have 5+ years experience with Unix mail systems, particularly MH.
Context
I received these as bug reports via e-mail, and interacted with one user over e-mail to patch util/mail.py in our installation to use QP encoding.
MoinMoin version 1.3.4, as shipped by Debian as python2.3-moinmoin 1.3.4-3.
Discussion
I think this issue was fixed in 1.5, we send qp or even 8bit now, but I am not sure. -- AlexanderSchremmer 2005-12-16 23:38:45
The change messages I receive from this wiki are sent using quoted-printable -- SamMorris 2008-07-02 23:21:37