Conrad wrote:
> Yes, seems so; I guess I'd just like a "best practice" section in the
> mhfixmsg man page which shows (for example) a recommended command line
> invocation (more-or-less covered a few emails back) and a procmail recipe.
There's been a procmail recipe in the man page since March
Jerrad wrote:
> I use slocal with rcvstore and at various times either MIME-hooks or the
> following .mh_profile entries
>
> add-hook: /usr/local/bin/mhfixmsg
> mhfixmsg: -decodetext 8bit -reformat -replacetextplain
Note that -decodetext 8bit and -reformat are defaults, so they're not
Norm wrote:
> The bulk of the non-spam mail I receive still has a utf-8 or a quotedPrintabl
> e part. I would like to apply UNIX text processing tools (grep, wc, sort,
> uniq, perl, etc) to these messages. It would be nice if the next release made
> that reasonably easily possible.
That's the
Ralph Corderoy writes:
>Hi Ken,
>
>> Norm wrote:
>> > The bulk of the non-spam mail I receive still has a utf-8 or a
>> > quotedPrintable part. I would like to apply UNIX text processing
>> > tools (grep, wc, sort, uniq, perl, etc) to these messages.
>>
>> I ... think the
>In principle I'd *like* to run mhfixmsg on email as it's delivered, but
>I'm also sympathetic to the "keep the wire copy" argument, and a little
>worried because of the abovementioned failures; does anyone else run it
>through procmail? Are you happy with your experience of same?
I've been using
Hi Ken,
> Norm wrote:
> > The bulk of the non-spam mail I receive still has a utf-8 or a
> > quotedPrintable part. I would like to apply UNIX text processing
> > tools (grep, wc, sort, uniq, perl, etc) to these messages.
>
> I ... think the latest release makes that easy as well?
Does Norm have
Ken> I ... think the latest release makes that easy as well? It sounds
Ken> like the only thing lacking from 1.6 in this area is documentation.
Yes, seems so; I guess I'd just like a "best practice" section in the
mhfixmsg man page which shows (for example) a recommended command line
invocation
>The bulk of the non-spam mail I receive still has a utf-8 or a quotedPrintable
>part. I would like to apply UNIX text processing tools (grep, wc, sort, uniq,
>perl, etc) to these messages. It would be nice if the next release made that
>reasonably easily possible.
I ... think the latest release
David Levine writes:
>Norm wrote:
>
>> David Levine writes:
>>
>> >Translate text/plain parts to UTF-8 To translate all text/plain parts in
>> >the current message to UTF-8, in addition to all of the default
>> >transformations:
>> >
>> >mhfixmsg -textcharset
>How do I translate, to utf-8, all parts of a message,
>which can be reasonably translated to utf-8? The first such part?
David gave you a good answer, but to expand on it a bit ...
Since not all Unicode codepoints are guaranteed to be represented as
UTF-8 in text/html, you can't really convert
Andy Bradford wrote:
What's wrong with the way nmh does it today? Maildir is certainly
superior for some of the reasons detailed below, but nmh's Mail store
isn't very far off:
http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html
some of us have converted to Maildir, but we miss MH's CLI
>I can freshen up the branch. Did anyone ever review it? Should I merge it
>as is? We should settle the api key management issue too.
I looked at it, but I cannot say that I reviewed it; every time I sat down
to really study it, I got lost in the whole OAUTH maze, then I got busy,
it fell onto
Norm wrote:
> David Levine writes:
>
> >Translate text/plain parts to UTF-8
> >To translate all text/plain parts in the current message to UTF-8, in
> >addition to all of the default transformations:
> >
> >mhfixmsg -textcharset utf-8
>
> How do I translate, to utf-8, all parts
Eric wrote:
> I can freshen up the branch. Did anyone ever review it? Should I merge it
> as is? We should settle the api key management issue too.
I looked at it, but not even close to review. How about leaving it on the
branch and we'll look it at there. I really do want to use it, just
David Levine writes:
>Norm wrote:
>
>> Maybe Contributions should have a tutorial script or two which
>> illustrate good ways to do that?
>
>How about adding this to the man page?
>
>EXAMPLES
>Basic usage
>To run mhfixmsg on the current message in the current folder, with
I can freshen up the branch. Did anyone ever review it? Should I merge it
as is? We should settle the api key management issue too.
Thanks.
On Tue, Mar 8, 2016, 4:25 PM Ken Hornstein wrote:
> I've been itching to do some MIME refactoring, and by "refactoring" I
> mean
Thus said Ken Hornstein on Wed, 09 Mar 2016 10:44:55 -0500:
> I am saying that we have people who want to use the nmh tools with
> both IMAP and Maildir mailstores. So making the nmh tools work with
> those mailstores would be useful.
Oh, I misunderstood. So part of my last email is no
Thus said Ken Hornstein on Wed, 09 Mar 2016 10:18:04 -0500:
> 1) I do not think converting and storing incoming messages as UTF-8 is
>wise. In terms of just simplicity alone I think messages should be
>stored (somewhere) in their on-the-wire format;
I too agree with this position. The
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