Re: [Nmh-workers] repl and mime handling

[Andreas Wittkemper]

On 01/16/12 22:36, address@hidden wrote:
> In the message dated: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:28:22 GMT,
> The pithy ruminations from Andreas Wittkemper on
> <Re: [Nmh-workers] Dealing with missing From: header during send.>  were:
> =>  On 01/10/12 16:56, address@hidden wrote:
> =>
> =>
> =>  >  It seems as if you're talking about composing a reply based on the
> =>  >  identity of the received message.
> =>  >
> =>  >  I've been using a wrapper around "repl" for about 5 years that will parse
> =>  >  the original message, match the identity against a list, and populate
> =>  >  the reply (From:, Reply-To:, Fcc:, signature) as needed.
> =>  >
> =>  >  I'm happy to contribute this code (perl) to the list.
> =>  >
> =>  >  Mark
> =>
> =>  Does your extension do anything about the mime and attachments problem when 
> you reply to those ?
>
> I try to do a little--tiny--bit of MIME handling:
>
>         check for a "text/html" part
>         check for "application/*" parts
>
>         if either is found, use:
>                 /usr/bin/mhshow -type text -type multipart -type message 
> -nopause -nomoreproc
>         to attempt to create a 'clean' message as the basis for the
>         reply
>
> this is semi-successful, crude, and far from universal.

Since the default way of doing the repl is basically broken for mime messages I 
would be interested in
your "crude" solution.
Guess it will take a while before better mime handling is implemented.

Andreas


> Mark
>
> =>  E.g. when you reply to mail with an attachment you will get everything 
> quoted in your reply mail
> =>  .
> =>
> =>  Andreas
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