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Re: [Nmh-workers] UTF-8 message bodies
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Paul Fox |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] UTF-8 message bodies |
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Thu, 31 May 2012 10:31:17 -0400 |
ken wrote:
> >to answer ken's question: i use automimeproc for the directives, and
> >am willing to reformat mail slightly to move leading '#' characters when
> >i get errors[1][2]. and i prefer not to have to type "mime" at the
> >whatnow prompt, because i'm sure it would result in my recipients
> >receiving a lot of mhbuild directives from me.
>
> Fair enough. What do you think about always running buildmimeproc but
> having an option about whether to process mhbuild directives? Something
> like "automhbuilddirectives: 1" or something like that (it would default
> to "0").
>
> I'm just thinking out loud here. My basic concerns is that I think nmh
> has to start sending MIME messages all of the time now because (as we've
> seen plenty of times) we get it wrong by default. Calling mhbuild is
> the easiest way of doing that. But having a situation where # in the
> beginning of the line causes the mail to fail is to me an intolerable
> situation to present to unsophisticated users.
agreed on all points. adding a new control over whether the directives
are processed or not seems like the right thing.
>
> I'm fine with the #on/#off directives; I can see their usefulness.
> Send in the code and we'll add it.
i'm looking at it. no promises! :-)
paul
>
> >[1] someone mentioned escaping: thanks -- it looks like doubling the
> > '#' character, just at the beginning of the line, will get you a
> > single # in the output. is that right?
>
> Yes.
>
> --Ken
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- Re: [Nmh-workers] UTF-8 message bodies, (continued)
- Re: [Nmh-workers] UTF-8 message bodies, Aleksander Matuszak, 2012/05/28
- Re: [Nmh-workers] UTF-8 message bodies, Ralph Corderoy, 2012/05/28
- Re: [Nmh-workers] UTF-8 message bodies, Aleksander Matuszak, 2012/05/28
- Re: [Nmh-workers] UTF-8 message bodies, Ken Hornstein, 2012/05/28
- Re: [Nmh-workers] UTF-8 message bodies, Aleksander Matuszak, 2012/05/30
- Re: [Nmh-workers] UTF-8 message bodies, Ken Hornstein, 2012/05/31
- Re: [Nmh-workers] UTF-8 message bodies, Aleksander Matuszak, 2012/05/31
- Re: [Nmh-workers] UTF-8 message bodies, Ken Hornstein, 2012/05/31
- Re: [Nmh-workers] UTF-8 message bodies, Paul Fox, 2012/05/31
- Re: [Nmh-workers] UTF-8 message bodies, Ken Hornstein, 2012/05/31
- Re: [Nmh-workers] UTF-8 message bodies,
Paul Fox <=
- Re: [Nmh-workers] UTF-8 message bodies, Ken Hornstein, 2012/05/31
- [Nmh-workers] [PATCH] mhbuild: implement #on/#off/#pop, and the -[no]directives switch, Paul Fox, 2012/05/31
- Re: [Nmh-workers] [PATCH] mhbuild: implement #on/#off/#pop, and the -[no]directives switch, Ken Hornstein, 2012/05/31
- Re: [Nmh-workers] [PATCH] mhbuild: implement #on/#off/#pop, and the -[no]directives switch, Ralph Corderoy, 2012/05/31
- Re: [Nmh-workers] [PATCH] mhbuild: implement #on/#off/#pop, and the -[no]directives switch, Paul Fox, 2012/05/31
- Re: [Nmh-workers] UTF-8 message bodies, valdis . kletnieks, 2012/05/31