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

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

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

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

[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