Re: [Nmh-workers] base64 ... just looking for advice

[Paul Fox]

david wrote:
 > Paul F. wrote:
 > 
 > > i think it would be helpful for the man page to be very explicit about
 > > what mhfixmsg does by default (it's only somewhat implicit, now),
 > 
 > There's a DEFAULTS section near the end.

oops.  of course there is.

 > 
 > > i'm a little surprised to not find -decodetext in that invocation,
 > > since your (david's) message arrived with C-T-E of base64, but is in
 > > my inbox with a C-T-E of 8bit.  am i perhaps forgetting something about
 > > my own mh configs?
 > 
 > -decodetext 8bit is the default.
 > 
 > Based on recent experience, and your Swiss-army-knife label, I'm
 > thinking that it shouldn't be the default.  But I don't feel
 > strongly about it.

after having had a second cup of coffee, i'd say don't change
anything.  it's fine.  :-)

paul
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