Re: [Nmh-workers] Conflict between "mime" command and attach

[Jon Steinhart]

Paul Fox writes:
> ken wrote:
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>  > >i don't recall us ever discussing the possibility of making the '#'
>  > >character that introduces mhbuild directives configurable by the user.
>  > >
>  > >for instance, if the leading character were '}', i don't think i would
>  > >ever have a conflict with "real" text.
>  > >
>  > >interpretation of those directives is strictly within mhbuild,
>  > >correct?  no leakage into other mh commands?
>  > 
>  > There used to be some leakage; for example, the old attach implementation
>  > would parse the Nmh-Attachment headers and then create mhbuild directives.
>  > I am not sure there is any leakage now.  But I am not in love with the idea
>  > of changing the leading character, because that opens the box for "how 
> should
>  > we do MIME composition, anyway?"  Which is not going to be easy.  As a
> 
> i guess i'm not sure how letting a user change the prefix character on
> the existing mechanism would make that worse.
> 
> (and i'm not talking about 1.6.)
> 
> paul

We wouldn't be talking about this if we had a good solution!

My opinion is that having special characters in the body is bad, like crossing
the beams.  It was a good hack at the time but should be put out of our misery.
I think that all MIME composition should be done via headers.  Y'all have done
a bunch of work on my original attachment stuff.  In what way is it not good
enough yet?

Jon