Thank you for your reply! >Yes, I did look at the forw(1) man page, tho obviously not as carefully >as I should have.
Well, it is good to understand where things went wrong; I appreciate your explanation. I'm sure we could have done better, but I'm not sure exactly what to do in this case; I will have to think about it. >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" So, this shows an example of the challenges we face. Normally we run mhbuild (the program that runs at the "mime" command) all of the time to ensure that the outgoing message has proper MIME forwarding. But directives to mhbuild to generate MIME content start with a '#', so when mhbuild is run automatically it does NOT process directives. When you run it at the MIME promot it DOES process directives, but the user has to know to escape any lines that start with a '#' with an extra '#', otherwise you get errors like this. And if you HAD manage to run it successfully, you would have ended up sending out a text/plain content with raw HTML in it, which is almost certainly what you didn't want. So given the current architecture, we are a bit stuck in presenting an "obvious" user interface. >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. Right, that would have just been a plaintext version of the HTML and not the HTML itself, which would have been BETTER, but probably also was not what you wanted. >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. Sigh. I think Jerry's book has a lot of good information in it, but it was last updated when nmh FIRST came out, many years ago. nmh has changed a lot since then (not as quickly as I would like, but we're doing our best), but his book hasn't kept up. So while a fair amount of that book still works, some of it does not or we have better ways of doing things in there. Jerry used to be on this mailing list but I haven't seen him send anything in years, and I suspect he wouldn't mind updates to his book but THAT is also a huge job that no one has been willing to tackle. So many projects, so little time. --Ken -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
