Re: [nmh-workers] To/cc decode or not to/cc decode

2019-07-17 Thread Ken Hornstein
>My thought was that it got invoked if .mh_profile didn't have the >"mh-version" line. Given your comment about this being spread out among >lots of files, perhaps we could simplify to a uniform process: all files >are versioned, and all generate the same message on being read if >there's been a r

Re: [nmh-workers] To/cc decode or not to/cc decode

2019-07-17 Thread Conrad Hughes
Ken> And while a check-mh-upgrade Ken> script might not be a bad idea, the problems I see are a) figuring Ken> out how to let people know it exists, and b) getting people to run Ken> it. My thought was that it got invoked if .mh_profile didn't have the "mh-version" line. Given your comment about

Re: [nmh-workers] To/cc decode or not to/cc decode

2019-07-17 Thread Ken Hornstein
>> people don't update their config files because they put in them in >> place 20 years ago and they worked fine > >That includes me. When I've time, I need to clear them all out and >start from scratch to see what's needed and the best way to solve >problems, using a new installation in a second

Re: [nmh-workers] To/cc decode or not to/cc decode

2019-07-17 Thread Ken Hornstein
>Perhaps we could all collaborate on collecting old .mh_profiles (maybe >also mhl.replys etc.?), piping 'em all through "sort -u" and looking to >see what was obsolete, then adding a check-mh-upgrade script which flags >obsolete stuff and gets invoked whenever the user's .mh_profile has a >missing

Re: [nmh-workers] To/cc decode or not to/cc decode

2019-07-17 Thread Conrad Hughes
Perhaps we could all collaborate on collecting old .mh_profiles (maybe also mhl.replys etc.?), piping 'em all through "sort -u" and looking to see what was obsolete, then adding a check-mh-upgrade script which flags obsolete stuff and gets invoked whenever the user's .mh_profile has a missing or ob

Re: [nmh-workers] To/cc decode or not to/cc decode

2019-07-17 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Ken, > > Because MH lets us arrange things how we want so if decoding was > > done by default we'd need a means to get to the raw original version > > instead, e.g. I want to scan or pick them based on the raw value. > > Given decoding isn't lossless, this suggests both the original and > > dec

Re: [nmh-workers] To/cc decode or not to/cc decode

2019-07-17 Thread Ken Hornstein
>Because MH lets us arrange things how we want so if decoding was done by >default we'd need a means to get to the raw original version instead, >e.g. I want to scan or pick them based on the raw value. Given decoding >isn't lossless, this suggests both the original and decoded would need >to be k

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2019-07-17 Thread Ralph Corderoy
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Re: [nmh-workers] To/cc decode or not to/cc decode

2019-07-17 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Ken, > > > Or, if mhl knows what fields contain addresses, I forget, then > > > perhaps a method of globally saying all address fields should be > > > decoded and unquoted? > > > > That would be a nice enhancement. > > My vague plans are that when nmh is changes to have a "real" internal > API