When you say, "Forward", what _EXACTLY_ do you mean?
I just 3 different things with the latest nmh, and they all behaved
"as designed".
- When I forwarded a message with forw -mime, it generates a new message
with an message/rfc822 MIME type; the original message contained
in the message/rfc822 has the correct Content-Type header
I didn't know forw had a -mime switch. Since this is something I'd find
very helpful, I just tried it, but it completely failed to work for me.
The message I tried to forward is described as follows:
# mhlist +wing 3943
msg part type/subtype size description
3943 multipart/mixed 16M
1 text/plain 326
2 application/pdf 3836K a_night_at_the_ballet_2nd.pdf
3 application/pdf 1098K light_vibrations_2nd.pdf
4 application/pdf 2092K sinatra_in_concert_2nd.pdf
5 application/pdf 3629K a_night_at_the_ballet_3rd.pdf
6 application/pdf 1100K light_vibrations_3rd.pdf
7 application/pdf 389K sinatra_in_concert_3rd.pdf
My test was invoked as follows:
# forw -mime +wing 3943
The resulting message is
8<----------------------------- cut here ---------------------------->8
From smw@smwonline.ca Thu May 9 13:06:39 2019
Return-Path: <smw@smwonline.ca>
Received: from mort (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
by 206-248-137-116.dsl.teksavvy.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Debian-10) with
ESMTP id x49H6dIA003943
for <smw>; Thu, 9 May 2019 13:06:39 -0400
To: smw
Subject: testing /local/paths/forw -mime
From: Steven Winikoff <smw@smwonline.ca>
Reply-to: Steven Winikoff <smw@smwonline.ca>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-ID: <3941.1557421599.1@mort>
Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 13:06:39 -0400
Message-ID: <3942.1557421599@mort>
#forw [forwarded message] +/home/smw/Mail/wing 3943
8<----------------------------- cut here ---------------------------->8
I wondered if this might be caused by a profile entry.
# grep forw ~/.mh_profile
forw: -filter .forwardfilter -form .forwardform
...but when I tried deleting this entry, the same thing happened:
8<----------------------------- cut here ---------------------------->8
From smw@206-248-137-116.dsl.teksavvy.com Thu May 9 13:08:15 2019
Return-Path: <smw@206-248-137-116.dsl.teksavvy.com>
Received: from mort (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
by 206-248-137-116.dsl.teksavvy.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Debian-10) with
ESMTP id x49H8F46004123
for <smw>; Thu, 9 May 2019 13:08:15 -0400
From: Steven Winikoff <smw@206-248-137-116.dsl.teksavvy.com>
To: smw
Subject: Re: FW: A Night at the Ballet - 2 (fwd)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-ID: <4121.1557421695.1@mort>
Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 13:08:15 -0400
Message-ID: <4122.1557421695@mort>
#forw [forwarded message] +/home/smw/Mail/wing 3943
8<----------------------------- cut here ---------------------------->8
Here the only difference is the Subject: header; in my first test the
default was empty, and in the second test I left the default value
unchanged.
Please let me know if there's any additional information I can supply
about this.
- Steven
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