Re: [Nmh-workers] mhbuild directives and filenames with spaces

[David Levine]

Joel wrote:

> Thus spake David Levine:
> > Joel wrote:
> >
> > > Is it possible to use an mhbuild directive to attach a file with
> > > spaces in its name? I'm getting increasing numbers of these from
> > > other people lately, and am tired of renaming them.
> > >
> > > The obvious thing, escaping spaces, doesn't work:
> > >
> > >   #application/pdf irritatingly\ named\ document.pdf
> > >
> > > I found no hints in the mhbuild manpage, nor from searching. Is
> > > there a way to do this with mhbuild as it is currently (in 1.4)?
> >
> > How about this, without the escapes:
> >
> >   #application/pdf {inline} irritatingly named document.pdf
> >
> > It will wrap the name in double quotes and put that in a
> > Content-Disposition header.
>
> Yes, this does work. Is this something which changed between 1.3 and
> 1.4? I could swear entering the filename unquoted failed the last time
> I tried it (which was sometime ago now).

No, as far as I know it's always been that way.

And just to note that it will work without the Content-Disposition
header.  But without that, the filename wouldn't appear.

The whatnow attach command requires escaping of spaces, etc.

David