Re: [Nmh-workers] message rewrite/fix up

[David Levine]

Harald wrote:

> But those who actually want to keep originals for something
> other than just debugging: Will they want to refile etc. them?
> 
> I don't know the answer and even if it is "yes", I don't have a
> solution. But I think these things should be discussed, otherwise
> the next day somebody will come and implement a switch to rmm or
> some other existing nmh command to somehow handle originals together
> with the message itself.

Agreed.  I'll reply to Ralph, I like his rmmproc approach.

> Sorry, that's probably my poor english grammar. The question I was
> wondering about is: Should messages in "preferred form" have headers
> like
> 
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> 
> (which I think is the minimum for RFC conform 8bit messages) or should
> such headers be stripped. I have come to the conclusion that these
> headers are to be present.

I agree, I don't think it's a good idea to strip headers.
mhfixmsg has to modify C-T and C-T-E when it changes the
content, of course.

David