>>I am trying to figure out how to forward an html email. > >Conrad gave you the correct answer, but let me expand on that a bit. > >But ... I have some questions for you. We tried to document this >behavior in the forw(1) man page. Here's the resulting snippet from it: > > To use the MIME rules for encapsulation, specify the -mime switch. > This directs forw to generate an mhbuild composition file. Note that > nmh will not invoke mhbuild automatically; you must specifically give > the command > > What now? mime > > prior to sending the draft. > >My questions are: did you look at the forw(1) man page? If so, did you >see this section? If you did see this section, was it unclear? If it >was unclear, could you tell us how it was unclear? I don't mean this >to be crapping on you; I genuinely want to know how we could make our >documentation better. > Yes, I did look at the forw(1) man page, tho obviously not as carefully as I should have. And yes, I do recall seeing that section. The error I was making was in not using the -mime switch. As a result, in the email I was trying to forward:
aalinovi:~$ show 1 aalinovi:~$ forw What now? mime mhbuild: unknown directive "#e2e2e2" What now? Another thing that confused me was that when I used forw I was seeing the raw html. I guess I was thinking I should see the text as I do when I use repl. Thinking about it, I suppose one mistake I made was turning to Jerry Peek's book first and then to the man pages. Don't misunderstand me - I think the book is good and has helped me a lot but I'll admit to getting frustrated and confused trying to follow his instructions where nothing I did seemed to work and I couldn't figure out why. As a result i probably wasn't in the best frame of mind when I finally did turn to the man page and skimmed rather paying attention to what I was reading. I don't believe the documentation is unclear. The fault is mine for, as I said above, not reading as carefully as I should have. Arthur -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
