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changeset 112:4e6a9ae1b53c
Added a bit of text on modern defaults; plus added code refs.
author | markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de> |
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date | Sun, 24 Jun 2012 22:32:18 +0200 |
parents | 8800dbbaedc5 |
children | 4a1f5ec6220d |
files | discussion.roff |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/discussion.roff Sun Jun 24 22:00:16 2012 +0200 +++ b/discussion.roff Sun Jun 24 22:32:18 2012 +0200 @@ -2062,6 +2062,7 @@ a text part with possibly attachments. This case is simplified a lot for users. + .U3 "MIME Type Guessing .P The use of @@ -2085,9 +2086,10 @@ Mmh implements this approach in the .Pn print-mimetype script. +.Ci 4b5944268ea0da7bb30598a27857304758ea9b44 Using it is the default choice. .P -A far better but less portable approach is the use of +A far better, though less portable, approach is the use of .Pn file . This standard tool tries to determine the type of files. Unfortunately, its capabilities and accuracy varies from system to system. @@ -2104,6 +2106,7 @@ .Pn file , version 5.04 or higher, is available it should be used. One needs to specify the following profile entry to do so: +.Ci 3baec236a39c5c89a9bda8dbd988d643a21decc6 .VS Mime-Type-Query: file -b --mime VE @@ -2245,12 +2248,30 @@ .H2 "Digital Cryptography .P Signing and encryption. +.P +FIXME .H2 "Modern Defaults .P -Just to give one example, for me it took one year of using nmh +Nmh has a bunch of convenience-improving features available, +but they are inactive by default. +The user needs to activate them. +Today one can expect every new user to want to have them available. +The reason they are inactive by default is the wish to stay compatible +with old versions. +Surprisingly, the community seems not to care that the highly useful +draft folder still is not available by default although it had been +introduced over twenty-five years ago. +.[ +rose romine real work +.] +This is one of several examples that require new users to first +build up an extensive profile in order to convert the default +nmh installation into a convenient state. +.P +To give an example, it took one year of using nmh before I became aware of the existence of the attachment system. One could argue that this fact disqualifies my reading of the documentation.