[9836] in SIPB bug reports
Re: exmh?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Fri Jan 9 07:25:41 2004
To: Adlar Kim <jwkim@ai.MIT.EDU>
cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
Reply-to: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 Jan 2004 22:38:16 EST."
<200401090338.i093cGWa027447@options.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 07:25:11 -0500
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
> I am not sure, but it may be worth upgrading since this version is more than 4
> years old. I'm hoping the newer version to handle the html emails better than
> the current version. Also, when I hit reply to messages with attachments, the
> attachment gets corrupted because of the ">" signs.. hope the new one doesn't
> do that..
Old doesn't mean bad; enough people rely on exmh that it's fairly
important not to take risks with it.
I don't think either of these problems are exmh problems; they're both
part of the mh that exmh uses underneath, and that doesn't get upgraded
on the same schedule (it's also part of the Athena release, so not really
within what SIPB can easily change, but reporting actual bugs to olc or
with sendbug is worthwhile).
mh (nmh) is what you're using if you do stuff like 'show' or 'repl' on
the command line. exmh uses this stuff underneath, so it's a victim of
the same problems that mh is.
In particular, your ~/.mh_profile file must have a configuration such as
'repl: -filter replfilter' if you get >'s in front of the body of mail
when you reply. You can edit the file it's pointing at (in my case,
in the Mail directory, there's a file named replfilter) to change the
behavior.
(I don't actually think it's good practise to send the same attachment
back and forth when you reply; if you want to forward a peice of mail
intact, it's best to use 'dist' on it (it'll show up with the same
sender that the orginial had, and a "resent-by" header in the top),
and most recipients appreciate it if you trim off the extra stuff when
you're just replying.)
I'm not sure what's wrong with how html emails are viewed, but I'd also
expect it to be an mh problem, not an exmh problem...
