Re: [Nmh-workers] whatnow: can't attach because no header field name was given.

2012-03-31 Thread Bill Wohler
Lyndon Nerenberg lyn...@orthanc.ca writes: On 2012-03-26, at 15:05 PM, Ken Hornstein wrote: Weren't you and Paul Vixie supposed to be working on that? Not me. I have other things I'm not working on! This is one of the funnier lines I've read in a while :-). -- Bill Wohler woh...@newt.com

Re: [Nmh-workers] whatnow: can't attach because no header field name was given.

2012-03-26 Thread Ken Hornstein
Well, what if GNU Mailutils folks buy these changes? Then they would have to change the header fields to mailutils-* which would be annoying. Worse, it would then make the header fields incompatible when in fact they would be compatible. This header is just an implementation wart ... it's really

Re: [Nmh-workers] whatnow: can't attach because no header field name was given.

2012-03-26 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2012-03-25, at 20:40 PM, Bill Wohler wrote: x-* is dead. Hi Lyndon, I missed this discussion. Do you have a URL or two to pertinent discussions? This has been a general grumbling throughout the IETF for years now. There's no single place it's getting discussed, but the issue crops up

Re: [Nmh-workers] whatnow: can't attach because no header field name was given.

2012-03-26 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, Deprecating Use of the X- Prefix in Application Protocols http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-appsawg-xdash-03.html Cheers, Ralph. ___ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers

Re: [Nmh-workers] whatnow: can't attach because no header field name was given.

2012-03-26 Thread Ken Hornstein
And this is why it's wrong to pretend they are headers. It leads to exactly this sort of misunderstanding. I still say the syntax should chance so there's no confusion as to what they really are - meta commands to nmh programs. I don't disagree with you, but I am

Re: [Nmh-workers] whatnow: can't attach because no header field name was given.

2012-03-16 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message 201203160123.q2g1nay7018...@darkstar.fourwinds.com, Jon Steinhart j...@fourwinds.com wrote: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu writes: --==_Exmh_1331860781_2149P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:02:48 PDT, Jon Steinhart said: And yes, having defaults

Re: [Nmh-workers] whatnow: can't attach because no header field name was given.

2012-03-16 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message 201203160200.q2g20jwt032...@hedwig.cmf.nrl.navy.mil, Ken Hornstein k...@pobox.com wrote: Full disclosure: I am using NMH version 1.3. Alas, version 1.4 has not been ported to FreeBSD yet. (Is this the real root of the problem?) When you say not ported ... do you mean, It doesn't

Re: [Nmh-workers] whatnow: can't attach because no header field name was given.

2012-03-16 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message 201203160209.q2g29b1w019...@darkstar.fourwinds.com, Jon Steinhart j...@fourwinds.com wrote: Please excuse my ignorance here. What killed x-? If anybody happens to know, I'd also like very much to find out who killed Rosie Larsen. Regards, rfg

[Nmh-workers] whatnow: can't attach because no header field name was given.

2012-03-15 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
Sorry. I feel sure that this must be an FAQ, but how does one get this message to go away, you know, so that I can actually send an attachment? ___ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers

Re: [Nmh-workers] whatnow: can't attach because no header field name was given.

2012-03-15 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message 4f61a9c7.26063c0a.6da5.3...@mx.google.com, you wrote: Ronald F. Guilmette writes: Ummm... Well, now at least the failure message is different... What now? attach four-leaf.jpg What now? s mhbuild: draft shouldn't contain MIME-Version: field

Re: [Nmh-workers] whatnow: can't attach because no header field name was given.

2012-03-15 Thread Jon Steinhart
Ken Hornstein writes: Is the attach command of whatnow making no attempt whatsoever to try to determine the correct MIME content type specification? Is every attachment just going to be sent as application/octet-stream? Dude, you make it seem like using application/octet-stream is an

Re: [Nmh-workers] whatnow: can't attach because no header field name was given.

2012-03-15 Thread Ken Hornstein
The only portion of the one I have here that seems at all relevant is this: For file names with dot suffixes, the context is scanned for a mhshow-suffix- entry for that suffix. The content-type for the part is taken from that context entry if a match is found. If no

Re: [Nmh-workers] whatnow: can't attach because no header field name was given.

2012-03-15 Thread Jon Steinhart
The only portion of the one I have here that seems at all relevant is this: For file names with dot suffixes, the context is scanned for a mhshow-suffix- entry for that suffix. The content-type for the part is taken from that context entry if a match is found. If no

Re: [Nmh-workers] whatnow: can't attach because no header field name was given.

2012-03-15 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:02:48 PDT, Jon Steinhart said: And yes, having defaults for common content types in the profile would be a good thing. At the time that I wrote this stuff suffixes were not nearly as standardized as they are today. Wow. Maybe somebody should gather them all up into a

Re: [Nmh-workers] whatnow: can't attach because no header field name was given.

2012-03-15 Thread Jon Steinhart
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu writes: --==_Exmh_1331860781_2149P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:02:48 PDT, Jon Steinhart said: And yes, having defaults for common content types in the profile would be a good thing. At the time that I wrote this stuff

Re: [Nmh-workers] whatnow: can't attach because no header field name was given.

2012-03-15 Thread Jon Steinhart
Lyndon Nerenberg writes: On 2012-03-15, at 6:37 PM, Ken Hornstein wrote: With X-MH-Attachment? Could we please use nmh-* for this stuff? Just to make it clear this is nmh-specific? Are you suggesting having a header like nmh-attachment which is rfc-problematic or just that we change

Re: [Nmh-workers] whatnow: can't attach because no header field name was given.

2012-03-15 Thread Ken Hornstein
Full disclosure: I am using NMH version 1.3. Alas, version 1.4 has not been ported to FreeBSD yet. (Is this the real root of the problem?) When you say not ported ... do you mean, It doesn't work when I tried to compile it?, because that's a serious problem. Or do you mean, Not in the ports

Re: [Nmh-workers] whatnow: can't attach because no header field name was given.

2012-03-15 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2012-03-15, at 7:09 PM, Jon Steinhart wrote: What killed x-? The IETF has been trying to stamp out x-* headers and commands (off all forms) for years. The momentum has finally grown to the point where it looks like it will happen. ___

Re: [Nmh-workers] whatnow: can't attach because no header field name was given.

2012-03-15 Thread Ken Hornstein
Anyway ... check out the man page for mhshow. And also mhn.defaults has an example. Hm, I realize now that attach does NOT CHECK mhn.defaults! Whoops. Looks like you have to do extra work to make that happen. Alright, so I just fixed that ... and I added a smattering of common content types to