Ken Hornstein writes: >So it seems consistent to me that at least the default mode with >mhshow should not show items with a disposition of "attachment". If >people want to add an option to mhshow to make it shows those things, >then that's fine with me. I'm just talking about defaults.
Great analysis, and I tend to agree with all your points which I snipped: yes, if you receive a letter with an attachment you most likely will want to mhlist/mhstore and then manually open stuff with openoffice or whatever. It looks like very sane flow from user (my) perspective. But... >>Does the last one implies, that some kind of meta-message will be >>constructed, and if someone send email with few text/x-diff's, for >>example, user will see the message and the diff's with one shot of >>mhshow? > >Well, first off ... text/x-diff? Who produces that Content-Type? Fine, >there's not really a standard for that. RFC 2046 suggests it's safe to >show unknown text subtypes directly to a user directly. The real question >is: what's the disposition of those MIME parts? RFC 2183 is silent on >what you're supposed to do if there is no disposition header, but I >would argue you should default to "inline". ... if I receive "disposition: attachment" which can be safely viewed in my terminal (like in the above example, text/x-diff, btw, Mutt produce such content-type) wouldn't it be nice to save me mhlist/mhstore steps and just display it inline (by default)? Also thinking about it I just caught myself: now nmh allow you specify a program for mhshow to call, to "show" you attachments, if my understanding is correct, and nmh is moving towards mhlist/mhshow approach this feature will be removed? Or there is intention to save this feature and just add a switch "display this type of attachment or hide them" to msshow-show-* profile entries? And therefor task from above paragraph can be achieved with just specifying 'cat' as a program to mhshow-show-text? _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
