Package: metamail
Version: 2.7-47
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
I'd like to be able to provide a filename for attachments sent with
metasend. I provide a patch which allows this:
With the new option "-A xxx", one can supply a filename. (This will add
a line 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="xxx"'; without the
-A option, no Content-Disposition-line will be added.)
Some mail programs (sylpheed, for example), use the Content-Description
as a filename when it exists, but including the space at the beginning,
after the ":", if there is one. So to get the filename correct even in
sylpheed, I need to be able to turn off the Content-Description-line.
I therefore changed the behaviour such that no Content-Description-line
is created when the -D option is left out. (Anyway, the default
Content-Description-line was "An object packed by metasend" which
probably nobody really wanted.)
I only patched the program; I didn't modify the man-page accordingly.
Note that I'm not an experienced shell programmer, so perhaps someone
should have a quick look over the new code.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.30-pcpool
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages metamail depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
-- no debconf information
*** metasend Mon Aug 8 15:47:50 2005
--- metasend_new Mon Aug 8 16:09:16 2005
***************
*** 42,48 ****
ouputfile=
multipartsubtype=mixed
! cdescrip="An object packed by metasend"
isentity=0
newid=`date | tr " :" "__"`
cid="<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
--- 42,49 ----
ouputfile=
multipartsubtype=mixed
! cdescrip= # -Immi
! attachfilename= # -Immi
isentity=0
newid=`date | tr " :" "__"`
cid="<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
***************
*** 198,203 ****
--- 199,215 ----
cdescrip=$1
shift ;;
+ # begin immi
+ -A) shift
+ if test -z "$*"
+ then
+ echo "-A requires a following argument, the attachment
file name"
+ exit 1
+ fi
+ attachfilename=$1
+ shift ;;
+ #end immi
+
-E) isentity=1
shift ;;
***************
*** 241,246 ****
--- 253,259 ----
eval datafile${multipart}=$datafile
eval encode${multipart}=$encode
eval cdescrip${multipart}=\"$cdescrip\"
+ eval attachfilename${multipart}=\"$attachfilename\" #
-Immi
eval cid${multipart}=\"$cid\"
eval isentity${multipart}=$isentity
eval encodingprog${multipart}=\"\$encodingprog\"
***************
*** 252,258 ****
newid=`date | tr " :" "__"`
cid="<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
idctr=`expr $idctr + 1`
! cdescrip="An object packed by metasend"
isentity=0
multipart=`expr $multipart + 1`
shift ;;
--- 265,272 ----
newid=`date | tr " :" "__"`
cid="<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
idctr=`expr $idctr + 1`
! cdescrip= # -Immi
! attachfilename= # -Immi
isentity=0
multipart=`expr $multipart + 1`
shift ;;
***************
*** 354,362 ****
eval encode${multipart}=$encode
eval encodingprog${multipart}=\"\$encodingprog\"
eval cdescrip${multipart}=\"$cdescrip\"
eval cid${multipart}=\"$cid\"
eval isentity${multipart}=$isentity
! cdescrip="An object packed by metasend"
isentity=0
ctype=
datafile=
--- 368,378 ----
eval encode${multipart}=$encode
eval encodingprog${multipart}=\"\$encodingprog\"
eval cdescrip${multipart}=\"$cdescrip\"
+ eval attachfilename${multipart}=\"$attachfilename\" #
-Immi
eval cid${multipart}=\"$cid\"
eval isentity${multipart}=$isentity
! cdescrip= # -Immi
! attachfilename= # -Immi
isentity=0
ctype=
datafile=
***************
*** 450,455 ****
--- 466,472 ----
eval datafile${multipart}=$datafile
eval encode${multipart}=$encode
eval cdescrip${multipart}=\"$cdescrip\"
+ eval attachfilename${multipart}=\"$attachfilename\" # -Immi
eval cid${multipart}=\"$cid\"
eval isentity${multipart}=$isentity
eval encodingprog${multipart}=\"\$encodingprog\"
***************
*** 504,510 ****
then
eval echo "Content-ID: \$cid$i" >> $fname
eval echo "Content-type: \$ctype$i" >> $fname
! eval echo "Content-Description: \$cdescrip$i" >> $fname
eval echo "Content-Transfer-Encoding: \$encode$i" >>
$fname
echo "" >> $fname
fi
--- 521,538 ----
then
eval echo "Content-ID: \$cid$i" >> $fname
eval echo "Content-type: \$ctype$i" >> $fname
! #begin immi
! eval cdescrip=\$cdescrip$i
! if test ! -z "$cdescrip"
! then
! echo "Content-Description: $cdescrip" >> $fname
! fi
! eval attachfilename=\$attachfilename$i
! if test ! -z "$attachfilename"
! then
! echo "Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename=\"$attachfilename\"" >> $fname
! fi
! #end immi
eval echo "Content-Transfer-Encoding: \$encode$i" >>
$fname
echo "" >> $fname
fi
