Package: nmh
Version: 1.3-1
Severity: wishlist

Hi Nick,

With the removal of both metamail and mime-codecs from Debian, I understand
that there are certain gaps in nmh's default mime handling now in Ubuntu.

Dan Zuras (Cc:ed) tracked down a possible solution to this problem he was
having on Ubuntu.  Do you think this is something that could be included by
default in the nmh package?

> To: Dan Zuras Ubuntu <[email protected]>
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Trying to understand nmh/mime/metamail...
> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:18:09 +0200
> 
> well, with metamail gone, you have to tell nmh yourself what to use to
> open stuff that has been sent via MIME. just put it into ~/.mh_profile or
> systemwide into /etc/nmh/mhn.defaults (at least in Debian)
> 
> here are the relevant parts of my mh_profile:
> 
> mhshow-suffix-text/plain: .txt
> mhshow-suffix-text/html: .html
> mhshow-suffix-application/msword: .doc
> mhshow-suffix-application/pdf: .pdf
> mhshow-suffix-application/PostScript: .ps
> mhshow-suffix-application/pgp-signature: .asc
> mhshow-suffix-image/jpeg: .jpg
> mhshow-suffix-audio/mp3: .mp3
> mhshow-charset-utf8: %s
> mhshow-charset-iso-8859-1: %s | iconv -f iso-8859-1 | less
> mhshow-charset-iso-8859-2: %s | iconv -f iso-8859-2 | less
> mhshow-charset-iso-8859-3: %s | iconv -f iso-8859-3 | less
> mhshow-charset-iso-8859-4: %s | iconv -f iso-8859-4 | less
> mhshow-charset-iso-8859-5: %s | iconv -f iso-8859-5 | less
> mhshow-charset-iso-8859-6: %s | iconv -f iso-8859-6 | less
> mhshow-charset-iso-8859-7: %s | iconv -f iso-8859-7 | less
> mhshow-charset-iso-8859-8: %s | iconv -f iso-8859-8 | less
> mhshow-charset-iso-8859-9: %s | iconv -f iso-8859-9 | less
> mhshow-charset-iso-8859-10: %s | iconv -f iso-8859-10 | less
> mhshow-charset-iso-8859-11: %s | iconv -f iso-8859-11 | less
> mhshow-charset-iso-8859-12: %s | iconv -f iso-8859-12 | less
> mhshow-charset-iso-8859-13: %s | iconv -f iso-8859-13 | less
> mhshow-charset-iso-8859-14: %s | iconv -f iso-8859-14 | less
> mhshow-charset-iso-8859-15: %s | iconv -f iso-8859-15 | less
> mhshow-show-audio/mp3: %p/usr/bin/mplayer -vo null '%F'
> mhshow-show-text/html: %p/usr/bin/w3m  -dump -T text/html '%F' | less
> mhshow-show-image: %p/usr/bin/feh '%F'
> mhshow-show-application/msword: %p/usr/bin/catdoc '%F' | less
> mhshow-show-application/PostScript: %p/usr/bin/gv '%F'
> mhshow-show-application/pdf: %p/usr/bin/gv '%F'
> mhshow-show-application/pgp-signature: %p/bin/cat '%F'
> mhshow-show-application/pgp-encrypted: %p/bin/cat '%F'
> mhshow-show-application/octet-stream: %p/bin/cat '%F'
> mhstore-store-application/PostScript: %m%P.ps
> mhstore-store-application/pdf: %m%P.pdf
> mhstore-store-application/msword: %m%P.doc
> mhstore-store-text: %m%P.txt
> mhstore-store-image/jpeg: %m%P.jpg
> mhstore-store-audio/mp3: %m%P.mp3
> mhstore-store-application/octet-stream: %m%P.data
> 
> 
> that's all i need for most of the stuff i get. just replace the
> applications with whatever you are using. seems tedious work but you
> just need to do it once, right? I really hope this is some help to
> you.

Cheers,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
[email protected]                                     [email protected]

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