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Re: [Nmh-workers] Items for nmh 1.7

2014-08-18 19:04:33
Ken Hornstein writes:
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.

Yes, I do.  No problem.
 
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?

Well yeah, I think that people should have to flip a switch to get the new
behavior.  Avoids the "breaking things" surprises.
 
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

Well you're right, I don't.  And you are a smart-ass :-)  I have thousands of
packages installed on my system that get auto-updated daily.  It would be a
full time job to look at the release notes for every update.  Not gonna happen.
So in general I prefer packages that fix bugs and add features without breaking
things because I'm trying to get other work done.

Jon

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