is mh transparent to encoded receipient names? i.e., if i receive a
mail message containing a recipient name such as:
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rickard_Ekl=F6f?= <rickard.eklof@example.com>
or
=?big5?B?TWFycyBDaGFuZyixabnFpOUp?= <Mars.Chang@example.com>
can i assume that string hasn't been munged in any way by mh, and that
if i simply reply, then recipients of the new message will see that
name correctly rendered? (assuming they're not running mh ;-)
i.e., i'm hoping this is strictly a presentation issue in mh, and not
something deeper.
Those RFC 2407 encodings are designed to be RFC 822 "atoms" and as
a result the handling of them in old decrepit mailers like mh should
just work :-); in terms of the header parser routines they should
handle them fine. That's always been my experience.
also, is there a simple way to manually render these encodings, in
order to see what they really look like?
I guess you've had your own custom scan format and mhl format forever?
The ones shipped with newer versions of nmh can do it for you automatically;
check out the "decode" mh-format function and the same option for mhl.
If you just want to decode one header, try:
$(libdir)/ap -format '%(decode(friendly{text}))' '<To/From header>'
--Ken
_______________________________________________
Nmh-workers mailing list
Nmh-workers@nongnu.org
https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers