From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by coral.primenet.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA02973 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 06:53:24 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA22282; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 16:46:24 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 16:46:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Zoltan Hidvegi Message-Id: <199608132045.WAA02459@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> Subject: Re: bug in zsh 3.0-pre6? To: A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Zefram) Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 22:45:23 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu (Zsh workers list) In-Reply-To: <9126.199608132037@tamarind.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> from Zefram at "Aug 13, 96 09:37:45 pm" Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary Phone: (36 1)2669833 ext: 2667, home phone: (36 1) 2752368 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL16 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"SEu4i.0.4S5.WcE4o"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1965 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > >When I read a message, quoted-printable or base64 is seemlessly converted > >on the fly by elm. > > That's odd, with the Elm I use the seam is so big I was compelled to > disable the conversion. (It invokes metamail, which, not to put too > fine a point on it, sucks rocks.) But regardless of the method of > display, the message as stored in the mail folder is mangled, and > that's what matters when trying to apply the patch. elm-2.4ME+ processes text-only mime messages without calling metamail. There are also several security fixes in that version and built-in PGP support. It is available from ftp://dionysos.fmi.fi/KEH/ but there is a mirror in ftp://ftp.cs.elte.hu/pub/unix/elm-2.4ME+/ :-). I apply patches using |$patch when I read a mail with less. Zoltan