Ken Hornstein writes: > >OK, I may be too busy to contribute at the moment but I can't ignore > >provocative messages like this one :) > > I hope you realize that was all in good fun; I really wish we never broke > anything, but I don't think it's avoidable.
Yes, I do. No problem. > >I don't use any custom mhl so I'm fine if it changes. *BUT*, I think that > >the default behavior after the change should be the same as the default > >behavior today unless there's a good reason to change it. It would probably > >be nice for heavy mhl users to have a converter from old to new. > > So you want the default behavior of mhl to simply dump out the complete > body of a message, without doing any MIME decoding at all? That just > seems lousy to me, and also incredibly non-useful. Are people depending > on that behavior? Well yeah, I think that people should have to flip a switch to get the new behavior. Avoids the "breaking things" surprises. > >BTW, this may just be laziness on my part, but one thing that really annoys > >me these days is receiving an email sent from a phone. The message displays > >just fine, but when I reply to it the original message doesn't get decoded; > >it's included as base-64. I also notice this with some other messages that > >are quoted/printable with the = stuff. Is there some way to make this work > >that I just haven't taken the trouble to do? If so, please clue me in. If > >not, it's something that I think needs to be addressed. > > If I was a smart-ass, I'd say, "Boy, you really DON'T read the release > notes, do you?" :-) > > But yes, there's been a solution since 1.5 came out. It's called > replyfilter, and it's in the nmh contrib directory; it should be part of > your install. If you look at it, it will contain directions on how to > set it up. There was even a recent email thread about people trying to > use it (but ultimately Norm decided he didn't want to use it). I won't > claim it's perfect, but I use it every day and it's a whole lot better than > it used to be. > > --Ken Well you're right, I don't. And you are a smart-ass :-) I have thousands of packages installed on my system that get auto-updated daily. It would be a full time job to look at the release notes for every update. Not gonna happen. So in general I prefer packages that fix bugs and add features without breaking things because I'm trying to get other work done. Jon _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
