Re: [Nmh-workers] Syntax for choosing content transfer encoding

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Ken,

> So the mhbuild syntax is a bit weird.  The way it looks like now is:
> 
> #type/subtype \
>       ;mime-attribute1=foo;mime-attribute2=bar \
>       (Comment which is essentially ignored) \
>       <Content-ID header> \
>       [Content-Description header] \
>       {Content-Disposition header} \
>       filename
> 
> There are a few other variations, but that's the basics.

`*8bit' wouldn't look to the future.  How about `field:value' as I don't
think it can be mistaken for any of the existing syntax?  It could also
occur more than once if future needs arise.  `cte:8bit'.

In general, it would be nice if nmh chose the `best', allowing me to
override it.  I'd favour 8bit if the text doesn't violate it, then
quoted-printable, then, if that was too noisy or bloated, base64.  This
would avoid me having to observe nmh complain 8bit wasn't possible and
manually downgrade to QP.

Cheers, Ralph.