Re: Mailing articles as message/rfc822

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 05:22:00PM +0100, Elmar W. Tischhauser wrote:
> I'm wondering whether it is possible to mail usenet articles as
> message/rfc822 instead of simply including the whole article in the mail
> body.

this is on (my) TODO-list for some time now (and IIRC Dirk already
implemented this for the the -M/-N batchmode).

> Since I was unable to find an appropriate configuration variable, I
> digged a little in the source and modified src/post.c:mail_to_someone()
> to include additional MIME headers (MIME-Version: 1.0, Content-Type:
> message/rfc822, Content-Disposition: inline; Content-Transfer-Encoding:
> copied from the original usenet article).
> However, these settings did not prevail, as rfc15211522_encode()
> (invoked from src/post.c:submit_mail_file()) decided to parse the whole
> body and add the usual "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15"
> again; regardless whether the mailed article was encoded in UTF-8 or
> whatever.

correct place would be inside mail_loop() (or submit_mail_file())
around the related comment:
            /* TODO: wrap article into message/rfc822? */
,-)

urs
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