Re: [Nmh-workers] Sending Binary Attachments

[Ken Hornstein]

>on batsu at Sat Dec 1 11:08:10 UTC 2012]"), but I use a large
>value for -maxunencoded in my $HOME/.mh_profile to prevent MH
>from base64-encoding my (100% 7-bit text) messages when they
>include long lines.

I sure hope you mean "quoted-printable" instead of base64.  I don't
think we would ever do base64 on text, unless you explicitly told it to.

>Specifically:
>
>     mhbuild: -maxunencoded 9999
>
>This has not been a problem for me until I used the "attach"
>option suggested by this thread:  when I then used "send" I get:
>
>     What now? s
>     mhbuild: -maxunencoded unknown

Ah, okay.  TWO problems.  The first problem is .... -maxunencoded is not
supported for 1.5!  So you getting this error message is TOTALLY expected,
and is not a bug.  Bob, I have to ask ... was nmh encoding long lines a
problem for you?  Before it would always do it, but ONLY when you ran
mhbuild.  As of 1.6 mhbuild is always run, but that wasn't done for
1.5; it was only run if you asked for it (like when you use attach).

The second problem is that if you were running 1.6, you'd get this:

What now? s 
mhbuild: limit of -maxunencoded is 998

Which is relatively self-explanatory (the limit for line length in messages
is 1000, so subtracting a CR-LF gets you to 998).

--Ken