In the larger sense ... how come you care? Nowadays pretty much everyone
can handle a quoted-printable email just fine.
I can't. :) Granted, my MH / NMH set-up is probably a decade old by
now, but I am using "less" as my default pager, and only invoke a
MIME-complaint reader when I absolutely have to.
Only a decade old? You're still a youngun'! :-)
FWIW, less is my default pager as well, but with an out-of-the-box setup
and nmh 1.6 you SHOULD be able to handle most text-based MIME messages
easily.
(Part of me would welcome advice on how to bring my NMH setup into the
21st century, although I know this is not the proper forum. The other
part of me wishes email could be easily read by those of us with a
VT100 terminal.)
Well, I think this is a reasonable forum; I'm not sure of another one!
I read a lot of email inside of an xterm, which isn't exactly a VT100
(my last VT-series terminal went to electronics recycling years ago when
it died). But seriously, you should be in reasonably good shape with
only a few minor changes. Here's an overview:
- Your life will work better if you pick a 8-bit locale. You SHOULD
have done this probably 5 years ago, but I know people tend to stick
with what they know. If you're unsure what to pick, I recommend
something like "en_US.UTF-8", assuming your terminal program can handle
UTF-8. If you're curious, download:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo.txt
and view it with "less", or even "cat", and see if it comes out right.
- If you've got your own format files for scan, repl, comp, etc ... consider
using (or taking from) the ones included with nmh; if yours are old, they
probably don't include the stuff to decode MIME headers properly.
- By default, "show" will invoke "mhshow" for MIME messages, which will
do things like decode base64 and quoted printable. If you have a
compatible text-based web browser like w3m or lynx, the install process
will be set up so it uses those to handle text/html content. Actually,
I'm kinda surprised that this isn't working for you already.
- For forwarding MIME messages, you really only have two options; dist(1)
(which some people find confusing) and forw -mime (which requires you
to run 'mime' at the WhatNow? prompt). Hopefully we'll do this better
later on.
- For replying to MIME messages, check out the nmh contrib directory
for replyfilter. Read the comments at the top; it should explain how
to set it up. You'll need perl and some extra perl packages to make
it function.
--Ken
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