Ken Hornstein writes: > >I guess I kinda believe the opposite. For example send won't send a > >message if it doesn't understand any of the addressees. I think that's > >a good thing. The general philosophy of mh was (contrary to the UNIX > >philosophy) that if anything is wrong do nothing. For various reasons > >some commands (for example, sortm -- with good reason) ,violate that > >rule, but at least it's a goal. > > Here's my problem with that ... is an "unknown" file suffix "something > wrong"? Or does it really mean "send as generic binary data"? > Everybody should be able to at least save application/octet-stream > to their local filesystem and can then do whatever they want with > it. Also, I'm wondering what other mail programs do when they're > asked to send MIME content with an unrecognized file extension; it > might be worthwhile to understand what the expected behavior is here. > > --Ken
I agree with Ken here. There is nothing wrong with unknown file types. That's covered by the RFCs. _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
