OK, I may be too busy to contribute at the moment but I can't ignore
provocative messages like this one :)
I hope you realize that was all in good fun; I really wish we never broke
anything, but I don't think it's avoidable.
I don't use any custom mhl so I'm fine if it changes. *BUT*, I think that
the default behavior after the change should be the same as the default
behavior today unless there's a good reason to change it. It would probably
be nice for heavy mhl users to have a converter from old to new.
So you want the default behavior of mhl to simply dump out the complete
body of a message, without doing any MIME decoding at all? That just
seems lousy to me, and also incredibly non-useful. Are people depending
on that behavior?
BTW, this may just be laziness on my part, but one thing that really annoys
me these days is receiving an email sent from a phone. The message displays
just fine, but when I reply to it the original message doesn't get decoded;
it's included as base-64. I also notice this with some other messages that
are quoted/printable with the = stuff. Is there some way to make this work
that I just haven't taken the trouble to do? If so, please clue me in. If
not, it's something that I think needs to be addressed.
If I was a smart-ass, I'd say, "Boy, you really DON'T read the release
notes, do you?" :-)
But yes, there's been a solution since 1.5 came out. It's called
replyfilter, and it's in the nmh contrib directory; it should be part of
your install. If you look at it, it will contain directions on how to
set it up. There was even a recent email thread about people trying to
use it (but ultimately Norm decided he didn't want to use it). I won't
claim it's perfect, but I use it every day and it's a whole lot better than
it used to be.
--Ken
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