Ken Hornstein <kenh(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com> writes:
Apparently, it's also trying to enforce that by rejecting any
non-plain-ASCII content. This is a real pain, mainly because whatever
it's doing isn't playing well with exmh: the post simply silently doesn't
happen. That's several notches below the already pretty awful handling
of post errors that I was used to.
AFAIK, when send doesn't happen you should always get an error, and an
exit with a non-zero error code. Certainly when a send fails for me
with exmh I always know about it. This is assuming you don't use -push.
So if this is failing, then that's a bug. If you're using -push ... well,
then what is happening is exactly what is supposed to be happening :-/
Yeah, I've been using exmh's "async" mode, which is documented as doing
the send in background and returning errors via email. I see that this
appears to boil down to adding "-push -forward" to the arguments to send.
If I switch exmh to the "wait" mode and try a failing case, I get a popup
window with
/usr/bin/mhbuild: exit 1
mhbuild: Text content contains 8 bit characters, but character set is US-ASCII
so I guess I'll be changing over to that.
Hm, in theory I see that you're supposed to get email back when push
fails. I'm not sure that's been tested in like forever. I'm not actually
sure what is supposed to do that. Ah, alright ... I see there's an alert()
function in uip/sendsbr.c. I suspect we're not calling that if mhbuild
fails.
The problem I've had with it in the past is that in a situation where *no*
mail can be sent, you don't get a notification back. Not much surprise
there, and I've found that the error message does get left behind in
a file in the drafts folder. But this mhbuild failure neither sends
warning mail nor leaves any file that I can find.
Which would happen if (a) you put an 8-bit character in your draft, and
(b) your locale is set to US-ASCII. Nmh takes the character set to use
out of the user's locale.
I generally run with LANG=C, which I suppose would have that effect.
I could probably arrange to override that environment setting while
calling "send", but it'd be easier if send had a command line switch
for it.
Thanks for responding!
regards, tom lane
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