nmh-workers
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [Nmh-workers] mhfixmsg suggestion

2013-08-11 13:13:39
Would it be very difficult for mhfixmsg to have an option
(maybe -reformat -reformat ?) to update the text/plain
version in a message? Constant Contact only updates the
text version of a newsletter when an administrator explicitly
does so by hand. Consequently I often see out of date
information unless I explicitly check the text/html part.

Alternatively, if there were a tool in nmh that could
strip out a part, I could have mhfixmsg build a new one.

So, we don't have a tool to really rewrite MIME messages; mhfixmsg
is it.  Maybe what would be appropriate is a new switch to mhfixmsg
to indicate a preferred MIME type when dealing with
multipart/alternative?  I will note that dealing with
multipart/alternative in the real world is one of the more
challenging things out there.

Especially when the message is broken.  I've been meaning
to do something about this:  I get messages from a certain
airline that have an empty text/plain.  My efforts to get
them to fix it have not been successful.

My only idea so far has been to add a -remove <partno>
switch, which would apply before the other transformations
that mhfixmsg does.  It would then add a text/plain that
corresponds to the text/html, as it does now.  Mark, I think
that would solve your problem, too?

Or is there a more general solution that keeps things simple?

I don't think we want -remove text/plain because that would
remove all text/plain parts.

David

_______________________________________________
Nmh-workers mailing list
Nmh-workers(_at_)nongnu(_dot_)org
https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>