[Nmh-workers] Attachments question
Hi, How do you do attachments with nmh? I've googled for an hour and can't find anything that works. Suppose I have, say, a tar file that I want to attach. What do I do and how do I have to be set up? My .mh_profile is as follows (I have nmh-1.1-RC3): -- Path: Mail Current-folder: inbox Draft-folder: outbox Editor: vi Signature: Stewart Wilson ali: -alias /home/wilson/.mh_aliases send: -alias /home/wilson/.mh_aliases whom: -alias /home/wilson/.mh_aliases unseen-sequence: unseen -- Thanks for your help! Stewart ___ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
Re: [Nmh-workers] Attachments question
On 8/29/2007 2:26 PM, Stewart W. Wilson wrote: How do you do attachments with nmh? Hi Stewart, Check the mhbuild(1) manpage or the online book section http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/cosemime.html (which is a bit out of date but may be easier to start with). If you run into problems, write back... Jerry ___ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
Re: [Nmh-workers] Attachments question
Jerry writes: > Check the mhbuild(1) manpage or the online book section > http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/cosemime.html (which is a bit out > of date but may be easier to start with). An alternative to mhbuild is to use the whatnow "attach" command included in modern nmh. It hides the mhbuild commands. See the send and whatnow man pages. "Modern" here means since August 2002, I think, though support for the attachformat option shown below was added in February 2006. To use: 0) Add "-attach X-MH-Attachment" to the send: and whatnow: lines in your .mh_profile. Mine look like: send: -forward -msgid -attach X-MH-Attachment -attachformat 1 whatnow: -attach X-MH-Attachment And, add some mhshow-suffix entries for the content types that you send, if you don't already have them. I use these: The mhshow-suffix entries are necessary to get the: proper application type with -attach X-MH-Attachment: mhshow-suffix-text/plain: .output mhshow-suffix-text/plain: .txt mhshow-suffix-text/plain: .xml mhshow-suffix-text/html: .html mhshow-suffix-image/jpeg: .jpg mhshow-suffix-application/msword: .doc mhshow-suffix-application/pdf: .pdf mhshow-suffix-application/PostScript: .ps mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.ms-excel: .xls mhshow-suffix-application/vnd.ms-powerpoint: .ppt For tar files, something like these should work: mhshow-suffix-application/x-tar: .tar mhshow-suffix-application/x-compressed-tar: .tgz 1) At the whatnow prompt, enter: attach /tmp/foobar.tgz Then send as usual. You won't get a chance to preview the mime output, but I've gained so much confidence with it that I no longer feel the need to. Some tips: * attach allows shell wild cards. * ls can be used at the whatnow prompt to look for your files. * al[ist] can be used at the whatnow prompt to show what you've attached. det[ach] can be used to delete attachments. And if you really want, you can edit the message to change attachments, though I reserve that for reordering. * Cc: or Dcc: yourself if you want to see what was sent. David __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __ ___ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
Re: [Nmh-workers] Attachments question
Hi Stewart I just used to composed messages of the form To: ... cc: ... From: ... Fcc: +outbox Subject: ... Bla, bla, bla ... #application/pdf; name="Abiturzeugnis.pdf" Abiturzeugnis.pdf #image/jpeg; name="Hotel_Walnut-Creek.jpg" Hotel_Walnut-Creek.jpg #application/rtf; name="LetterRecom.rtf" /Users/phil/LetterRecom.rtf ... Best regards Philipp On 29 Aug 2007, at 23:26 , Stewart W. Wilson wrote: Hi, How do you do attachments with nmh? I've googled for an hour and can't find anything that works. Suppose I have, say, a tar file that I want to attach. What do I do and how do I have to be set up? My .mh_profile is as follows (I have nmh-1.1-RC3): -- Path: Mail Current-folder: inbox Draft-folder: outbox Editor: vi Signature: Stewart Wilson ali: -alias /home/wilson/.mh_aliases send: -alias /home/wilson/.mh_aliases whom: -alias /home/wilson/.mh_aliases unseen-sequence: unseen -- Thanks for your help! Stewart ___ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers ___ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
