As the guy who created this mess in the first place, I appreciate the work that y'all are doing 'cause I unfortunately don't have time right now.
I take the blame for attach beinging incompatible with mhbuild because it uses mhbuild internally. The problem is that attach has to deal with drafts that contain lines that begin with a # because the draft might be something like a snippet of C code with #include or something. So I don't think that adding more magic directives is really going to help. I personally don't have any problem with the way that it works now. I never use mhbuild directly, and am happy seeing the list of attachments with "al" at "whatnow"; I don't need to see them expanded as gobs of gibberish. If I was going to pick at something that is truly error-prone that I screw up all of the time it's forwarding and replying to multipart messages. I don't like automime because it needlessly complicates simple messages, but I often forget to "mime" things at "whatnow" and screw 'em up. What I like about attach is that it just does the right thing and I don't have to know how it does it internally. It would be really nice if the same were true with other parts of the ui. The nmh MIME support comes across to me as a wart. No offense intended, it's a really useful wart and I use it every day. But it's not really integrated into the ui in a pleasant way. I would be more interested in rethinking the ui in a holistic way than picking at details that exist because of how the ui evolved. And I wish that I had time to contribute more. Jon _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
