[478] in Release_7.7_team
re: mh and mime
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Barker)
Thu Apr 11 17:08:57 1996
To: sol24@MIT.EDU, irix53@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 17:07:58 EDT
From: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
After discussions yesterday and today (thanks, jhawk, Dot, Carla,
Craig, Greg, Bill, Naomi, and probably others...), I think our best
approach is:
1. We should leave support for mime in mh. I.e., the current build
(for 8.0) is correct.
2. We should disable mime operation by default. E.g.,
setenv NOMHNPROC 0
seems to put mh back into a "non-mime" state. This can be probably be
done in a global fashion.
3. We should document and publicize that mime support is provided.
This should include instructions for enabling it along with warnings
about the default mhn handling (e.g., by default mhn will try to print
postscript segments.)
We should indicate that we are interested in providing more support
for use of this option, but we need to gain experience in setting it
up and its operational use.
(should we set up a mailing list? for discussion, etc.?)
