Package: metamail
Version: 2.7-46
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux kogan 2.4.25 #18 Mon Jun 28 16:55:20 OMSST 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.koi8r, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.koi8r
Versions of packages metamail depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.4-3 Shared libraries for terminal hand
-- no debconf information
8-bit text/plain e-mail are common in ex-USSR countries. Metamail itself
works with 8-bit transfer-encoding just fine, but metasend script treats
-e "8bit" like -e "quoted-printable". Attached patch should fix this
problem.
*** metasend.old Thu Dec 16 17:55:09 2004
--- metasend.new Thu Dec 16 17:58:57 2004
***************
*** 135,144 ****
--- 135,145 ----
encode=$1
case "$encode" in
"base64") encodingprog="mimencode -b";;
"x-uue") encodingprog="uuencode \$datafile";;
"7bit") encodingprog=cat;;
+ "8bit") encodingprog=cat;;
*) encodingprog="mimencode -q"
encode=quoted-printable ;;
esac
shift ;;
***************
*** 322,331 ****
--- 323,333 ----
echo "Do you want to encode this data for sending
through the mail?"
echo " 1 -- No, it is already in 7 bit ASCII"
echo " 2 -- Yes, encode in base64 (most efficient)"
echo " 3 -- Yes, encode in quoted-printable (less
efficient, more readable)"
echo " 4 -- Yes, encode it using uuencode (not
standard, being phased out)"
+ echo " 5 -- No, it is 8 bit extended ASCII"
read encode
looping=0
case "$encode" in
1) encodingprog=cat
encode=7bit ;;
***************
*** 333,342 ****
--- 335,346 ----
encode=base64 ;;
3) encodingprog="mimencode -q"
encode=quoted-printable ;;
4) encodingprog="uuencode $datafile"
encode=x-uue ;;
+ 5) encodingprog=cat
+ encode=8bit ;;
*) echo Unrecognized answer, please try again.
looping=1 ;;
esac
done
fi
***************
*** 423,432 ****
--- 427,437 ----
else
case "$encode" in
base64) encodingprog="mimencode -b" ;;
x-uue) encodingprog="uuencode $datafile" ;;
7bit) encodingprog=cat ;;
+ 8bit) encodingprog=cat ;;
*) encodingprog="mimencode -q"
encode=quoted-printable ;;
esac
fi
fi
