[Nmh-workers] 1.7rc3: mhl(1) man page refers to old mhl.format name

2017-10-31 Thread Mike Kupfer
In 1.7 RC3, the mhl(1) man page refers to mhl.format. It looks like that file is now called mhl.headers. And while I'm here, thanks for the work y'all do on nmh. regards, mike ___ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.or

Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.7rc3: mhl(1) man page refers to old mhl.format name

2017-10-31 Thread Ken Hornstein
>In 1.7 RC3, the mhl(1) man page refers to mhl.format. It looks like >that file is now called mhl.headers. So ... that hasn't changed. But how things work now is a bit confusing. If you have a MIME message (and most are now), show(1) ends up invoking mhshow(1), which DOES use mhl(1) to display

[Nmh-workers] mhshow manpage (was Re: 1.7rc3: mhl(1) man page refers to old mhl.format name

2017-10-31 Thread valdis . kletnieks
So I'm reading the manpage, and hit this: Checking the Contents The -check switch tells mhshow to check each content for an integrity checksum. If a content has such a checksum (specified as a Content-MD5 header field), then mhshow will attempt to verify the integrity o

Re: [Nmh-workers] mhshow manpage (was Re: 1.7rc3: mhl(1) man page refers to old mhl.format name

2017-10-31 Thread Ken Hornstein
>Given the deprecated nature of MD5, should we keep this around? When was the >last time one of these was seen in the wild? Seems like most people who worry >about integrity are PGP-signing with a SHA hash of some variety (hopefully not >SHA-1 :). Weee I'm with you on that, but other peop

Re: [Nmh-workers] mhshow manpage (was Re: 1.7rc3: mhl(1) man page refers to old mhl.format name

2017-10-31 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Valdis, > Given the deprecated nature of MD5, should we keep this around? When > was the last time one of these was seen in the wild? My .mh_profile specifies -check for a bunch of programs so Content-MD5 appears if I MIME-process an email, e.g. `forw -mime'. I don't rely of it for cryptograp

Re: [Nmh-workers] mhshow manpage (was Re: 1.7rc3: mhl(1) man page refers to old mhl.format name

2017-10-31 Thread valdis . kletnieks
On Tue, 31 Oct 2017 17:32:07 -, Ralph Corderoy said: > This topic popped up at the end of August, and a few years back when Ken > wanted to "garbage collect" it; Lyndon then said he made use of it to > spot identical parts across emails. Do enough MUAs/people generate the header for it to be

Re: [Nmh-workers] mhshow manpage (was Re: 1.7rc3: mhl(1) man page refers to old mhl.format name

2017-10-31 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Valdis, > > This topic popped up at the end of August, and a few years back when > > Ken wanted to "garbage collect" it; Lyndon then said he made use of > > it to spot identical parts across emails. > > Do enough MUAs/people generate the header for it to be useful for that > purpose? I expect