On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:00:58 +0200 Florian Reitmeir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Scott Bennett wrote: >> Then you should send your suggestion to Sun Microsystems, Inc., not >>to me, because this particular implementation is the Solaris version. You >>may also want to suggest something similar to the FreeBSD development team >>for UCBmail (likewise the NetBSD and OpenBSD teams) because that is included >>in the base system just as mailx is with Solaris, and probably also to >>the LINUX developers, though I don't use LINUX and do not know for sure >>that they maintain a version of mailx. It is indeed a UNIX standard, so >>live with it. > >the man-page of mailx on UNIX states:
You fail to mention which sort of UNIX you're looking at. > >------- snap >mailx supports the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) standard >in two ways: it supports the creation of multipart and text/enriched >messages, and supports the reading of MIME messages by automatically >invoking the metamail(1) program when necessary. >------- snap The Solaris version doesn't support it, and there is no mention of MIME in the man page for it. > >and the man-page of metamail: > >------- snap >Note also that metamail automatically decodes mail that has been encoded >for 7-bit transport if the mail includes a ``Content-Transfer-Encoding'' >header as specified by RFC 1341. If data has been encoded via the >"base64" encoding, it will map CRLF to local newlines for textual data, >but not for other data, unless instructed otherwise by a textualnewlines >field in a mailcap entry. >------- snap > So what? > >so why not just end the discussion, by correctly configuring your >mailclient? > As previously noted more than once, there is no support for either non-ASCII character sets or MIME in the Solaris mailx. See another message for a practical reason for my not changing mailers at this time. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army." * * -- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * **********************************************************************