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Re: [Nmh-workers] It's mh_profile(5) and mts.conf(5).


From: valdis . kletnieks
Subject: Re: [Nmh-workers] It's mh_profile(5) and mts.conf(5).
Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 18:30:37 -0400

On Sun, 28 May 2017 22:47:58 +0100, Ralph Corderoy said:

> I was suggesting ditching mh-profile(5) because the identical content is
> in mh_profile(5) and the latter better matches the name of the
> configuration file.  Sorry if that wasn't clear.

Oh, OK.. Yeah, that sounds like a good plan. :)

> > (Though this *still* leaves the question of whether the Signature:
> > block needs proper quoting if it contains non-ascii or rfc-problematic
> > punctuation....
>
> A brief experiment suggests it's used unaltered in %(myname) and
> (localmbox), following mh-format(5).  How it's then handled depending
> where they're used...

I'm sure there's places where it's used with following dequoting, and some
where it isn't dequoted.  And most of the corner cases are going to be
in weird user-written stuff that's grown organically over the past few decades.

But I meant it more as an example of why a good 'man 5' page is useful. ;)

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