I added this to my profile in 2004: #: mhshow sucks; I'll run it by hand if I need to showmimeproc: mhl
Thinking back, I'm surprised I put up with it for 4 years. And it turns out I never run mhshow by hand; instead I mhlist and mhstore, and often view in MH-E. I've been watching the work to use mhshow by default but procrastinating looking into it, and then I saw the 1.6 prep start; better late than never? Maybe? :-/ I tried it out on some recent mail, and still hate it. Not asking to block the 1.6 release, though; surely in most of the broken cases, pre-1.6 nmh also ran mhshow, so probably none of this is new. And thankfully the showmimeproc: mhl trick still works, so I'll stick with that, for now. Maybe 1.7 :) First, it's noisy: mhshow: extraneous trailing ';' in message 132's Content-Type: parameter list mhshow: extraneous trailing ';' in message 132's Content-Type: parameter list mhshow: extraneous trailing ';' in message 186's Content-Type: parameter list mhshow: extraneous trailing ';' in message 186's Content-Type: parameter list mhshow: message 593 has multiple MIME-Version: fields Why the heck should I care about that? Complaining multiple times, too! Just tolerate it and get on with it. It refuses to show plain text parts it doesn't think are text based on the media type: mhshow: don't know how to display content (content message/delivery-status in message 641, part 2) I guess the answer would be a registry of standard and common types that are plain text? Sounds like a pain to build... And then there's this weirdness (from the same delivery-status message): mhshow: Can't convert unicode-1-1-utf-7 to UTF-8 mhshow: unable to convert character set of part 1 to unicode-1-1-utf-7, continuing... As far as I can tell, it actually did decode and show the content. So what is it complaining about? The delivery-status message is a "mailbox full" message from AOL. Surprisingly, at least one person still uses AOL, and they probably have some crazy small mailbox size. I can forward it to Ken or anyone else who wants a look at it, but would rather not post it to the list. Thanks. _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers