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

[Ken Hornstein]

> > 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.

I understand your point ... it's just that it seems like a Band-Aid™ on
a much larger problem, and I'd rather solve the much larger problem.  But
then again, I wrote replyfilter which is also a Band-Aid™ on a much
larger problem.  I don't have a good answer, unfortunately; the idea
of changing that leaves me unsettled, but I recognize that's not really
a rational argument.  What do others think?

--Ken