Ken Hornstein <[email protected]> writes: >>Background: I’m using mhstore in a script to automatically >>extract images and text from messages. Since the messages come >>from and results go to naïve users, I’d like to be able to use >>the original file basenames so that they recognise what they >>sent. >> >>-auto isn’t desirable because it completely ignores the filename >>if there’s anything dodgy about it. So I currently create a >>temporary profile with mhstore-<type> lines, but this loses the >>original filename completely. > > So, digging back a little while ... > > We don't (yet) have a way of interrogating a MIME message to get out > particular MIME parameters. It occurs to me that would be useful. We did > talk earlier about adding some structured output capability to mhlist; > I made the point that having the ability to specify a mh-format instruction > rather than depend on a particular output format would probably be more > useful and long-term portable.
That would be exactly what I want; mhstore and mhlist probably should have similar format options. -- Jón Fairbairn [email protected] _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
