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 > > _______________________________________________ > Nmh-workers mailing list > Nmh-workers@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers =--------------------- paul fox, p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 67.1 degrees) _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
