[479] in Release_7.7_team
re: mh and mime
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Thu Apr 11 17:39:56 1996
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 17:39:42 -0400 (EDT)
To: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: "[478] in Release_7.7_team"
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
. 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.
Hmm; it would seem to make more sense to change the binary to
not use mime stuff by default and then have the environment variable
turn it on....
. 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.)
I meant to say this before, but have been a bit busy.
CWIS is already maintaining a mailcap file that launches various
applications. Clearly there are some things that show up more
frequently on the web than in email, and vice versa, but there's a lot
of overlap. Someone needs to address the issue of whether the release
should have a global mailcap for all applications, and who maintains
that.
It seems apparent (to me, at least) that a default that prints certain
types of things is inherently broken and needs to be modified before
the software is put in the release, mime on by default or not.
--jhawk
