Re: [Nmh-workers] base64 ... just looking for advice

[David Levine]

Paul F. wrote:

> i think it would be helpful for the man page to be very explicit about
> what mhfixmsg does by default (it's only somewhat implicit, now),

There's a DEFAULTS section near the end.

> perhaps along with some example invocations for the most common
> problems/solutions.

Yes, those would be helpful.

> i'm a little surprised to not find -decodetext in that invocation,
> since your (david's) message arrived with C-T-E of base64, but is in
> my inbox with a C-T-E of 8bit.  am i perhaps forgetting something about
> my own mh configs?

-decodetext 8bit is the default.

Based on recent experience, and your Swiss-army-knife label, I'm thinking that 
it shouldn't be the default.  But I don't feel strongly about it.

David