a while ago i suggested making a bunch of changes mhlist, to make the output more parseable. ken correctly pointed out that i might be going a bit too far too quickly, and i adjusted my wrapper script to be able to work with the existing output -- the whitespace parsing issues weren't that hard to deal with after all.
but there's one aspect of the mhlist output that i think could change readily enough. currently, mhlist will truncate certain string fields to keep the output tabular. in particular, content-types are truncated to 24 characters, content-descriptions to 36, and rfc-822 comments on a content-type to 65. the content-type limit gets hit pretty easily with application types, e.g. "application/x-zip-compre". i propose eliminating any of the truncations if "-verbose" is given. example output below -- all of the above-mentioned truncations occur in part 2. output without -verbose is unchanged: $ mhlist msg part type/subtype size description 4 multipart/signed 13K 1 text/plain 4608 2 application/pkcs7-signat 5958 S/MIME Cryptographic Signature with old output with -verbose, fields truncated: $ mhlist -verbose msg part type/subtype size description 4 multipart/signed 13K protocol="application/pkcs7-signature" micalg="sha-1" boundary="----=_Part_2919_383128135.1401281510426" 1 text/plain 4608 charset="UTF-8" format="flowed" delsp="Yes" 2 application/pkcs7-signat 5958 S/MIME Cryptographic Signature with name="smime.p7s" smime-type="signed-data" (this is a very long and boring comment that no one really ever w new output with -verbose, no truncations: $ uip/mhlist -verbose msg part type/subtype size description 4 multipart/signed 13K protocol="application/pkcs7-signature" micalg="sha-1" boundary="----=_Part_2919_383128135.1401281510426" 1 text/plain 4608 charset="UTF-8" format="flowed" delsp="Yes" 2 application/pkcs7-signature 5958 S/MIME Cryptographic Signature with an augmented description name="smime.p7s" smime-type="signed-data" (this is a very long and boring comment that no one really ever wants to see, but there you have it) any objections to this? paul =---------------------- paul fox, p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 44.4 degrees) _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers