[483] in Release_7.7_team
Re: mh and mime
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sun Apr 14 21:49:49 1996
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 21:49:43 -0400 (EDT)
To: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[480] in Release_7.7_team"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
) Incidentally, I know you haven't had time to check the mh
) documentation or sources, but mhn does not appear to use mailcap. It
) uses mhn_defaults. Same idea, perhaps similar formats. I may have
) used the wrong file name in earlier messages, and I apologize for
) confusing the issue.
This is unfortunate; my response would be that the Right Thing To Do
would be to develop a transformation that will convert one master file
format into mhn_defaults. Since mailcap and mime-types seem to be the
standard used by most web browsers, as well as the original MIME tools
from Bellcore, it seems reasonably for that to be the master for that
transmformation. This is probably not a huge amount of work, but more
there's time for now.
) However, in the eight weeks (plus or minus two) that remain before the
) release of solaris 2.4, it isn't going to happen. I'm adding it to
) the list of urop ideas, and perhaps we will have a chance to revisit
) it as a general issue in the fall.
Sounds good!
) As an interim suggestion, I think we should simply remove bad entries
) in the mhn_defaults file (e.g. the postscript printing). This would
This is certainly better than leaving things as they are; my personal
preference would be to leave the MIME support disabled (via
environment variable or what-have-you) as well, but perhaps I'm being
ancienty and crufty.
--jhawk
