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diff discussion.roff @ 112:4e6a9ae1b53c

Added a bit of text on modern defaults; plus added code refs.
author markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>
date Sun, 24 Jun 2012 22:32:18 +0200
parents 4c0f13b1e0e8
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     1.1 --- a/discussion.roff	Sun Jun 24 22:00:16 2012 +0200
     1.2 +++ b/discussion.roff	Sun Jun 24 22:32:18 2012 +0200
     1.3 @@ -2062,6 +2062,7 @@
     1.4  a text part with possibly attachments.
     1.5  This case is simplified a lot for users.
     1.6  
     1.7 +
     1.8  .U3 "MIME Type Guessing
     1.9  .P
    1.10  The use of
    1.11 @@ -2085,9 +2086,10 @@
    1.12  Mmh implements this approach in the
    1.13  .Pn print-mimetype
    1.14  script.
    1.15 +.Ci 4b5944268ea0da7bb30598a27857304758ea9b44
    1.16  Using it is the default choice.
    1.17  .P
    1.18 -A far better but less portable approach is the use of
    1.19 +A far better, though less portable, approach is the use of
    1.20  .Pn file .
    1.21  This standard tool tries to determine the type of files.
    1.22  Unfortunately, its capabilities and accuracy varies from system to system.
    1.23 @@ -2104,6 +2106,7 @@
    1.24  .Pn file ,
    1.25  version 5.04 or higher, is available it should be used.
    1.26  One needs to specify the following profile entry to do so:
    1.27 +.Ci 3baec236a39c5c89a9bda8dbd988d643a21decc6
    1.28  .VS
    1.29  Mime-Type-Query: file -b --mime
    1.30  VE
    1.31 @@ -2245,12 +2248,30 @@
    1.32  .H2 "Digital Cryptography
    1.33  .P
    1.34  Signing and encryption.
    1.35 +.P
    1.36 +FIXME
    1.37  
    1.38  
    1.39  
    1.40  .H2 "Modern Defaults
    1.41  .P
    1.42 -Just to give one example, for me it took one year of using nmh
    1.43 +Nmh has a bunch of convenience-improving features available,
    1.44 +but they are inactive by default.
    1.45 +The user needs to activate them.
    1.46 +Today one can expect every new user to want to have them available.
    1.47 +The reason they are inactive by default is the wish to stay compatible
    1.48 +with old versions.
    1.49 +Surprisingly, the community seems not to care that the highly useful
    1.50 +draft folder still is not available by default although it had been
    1.51 +introduced over twenty-five years ago.
    1.52 +.[
    1.53 +rose romine real work
    1.54 +.]
    1.55 +This is one of several examples that require new users to first
    1.56 +build up an extensive profile in order to convert the default
    1.57 +nmh installation into a convenient state.
    1.58 +.P
    1.59 +To give an example, it took one year of using nmh
    1.60  before I became aware of the existence of the attachment system.
    1.61  One could argue that this fact disqualifies my reading of the
    1.62  documentation.