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-.TH SEND %manext1% "April 14, 2013" "%nmhversion%"
+.TH SEND %manext1% "January 23, 2014" "%nmhversion%"
.SH NAME
send \- send a message
.SH SYNOPSIS
\&...]
.RB [ \-version ]
.RB [ \-help ]
-.RB [ \-attach
-.IR header-field-name ]
-.RB [ \-noattach ]
-.RB [ \-attachformat
-.IR 0 " | " 1 " | " 2 ]
.ad
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B Send
are actually performed by
.BR post .
.PP
-By default the draft is scanned for a header named
-.IR Nmh-Attachment .
+Before
+.B send
+gives the message to
+.B post
+for delivery, the message is processed by
+.B mhbuild
+to perform any necessary MIME encoding of the outgoing message. This
+can be changed by the
+.I buildmimeproc
+profile component.
+.B mhbuild
+is invoked with the
+.B \-auto
+switch, so
+.B mhbuild
+directives are not processed by default. See
+.IR mhbuild (1)
+for more information.
+.PP
+.B mhbuild
+will scan the message draft for a header named
+.IR Attach .
The draft is converted to a MIME message if one or more matches are found.
-This conversion occurs before all other processing. The header name
-can be changed with the
-.B \-attach
-option. This behavior can be disabled completely with the
-.B \-noattach
-option. The
-.B whatnow
+This conversion occurs before all other processing. The
+.IR whatnow (1)
man page describes the user interface for managing MIME attachments via
this mechanism.
.PP
The first part of the MIME message is the draft body if that body contains
any non-blank characters.
-The body of each header field whose name matches the
-.I header-field-name
-is interpreted as a file name, and each file named is included as a separate
+The body of each
+.I Attach
+header field is interpreted as a file name, and each file named is included as a separate
part in the MIME message.
.PP
-For file names with dot suffixes, the profile is scanned for a
+Determination of the content MIME type inserted into the Content-Type
+header for each part depends on how the
+.B nmh
+installation was configured. If a program, such as
+.B file
+with a
+.B \-\-mime
+or
+.B \-i
+option, was found that can specify the type of a file as a MIME type
+string, then that will be used. To determine if your
+.B nmh
+was so configured, run
+.B mhparam mimetypeproc
+and see if a non-empty string is displayed.
+.PP
+If your
+.B nmh
+was not configured with a program to specify a file type as a MIME
+string, then a different method is used to determine the content-type
+string. For file names with dot suffixes, the profile is scanned for a
.I mhshow-suffix-
entry for that suffix.
The content-type for the part is taken from that profile entry if a match is
.IR mhshow (1)
for more details and example syntax.
.PP
-Each part contains a name attribute that is the last component of the path name.
-A
-.I x-unix-mode
-attribute containing the file mode accompanies each part.
-Finally, a description attribute is generated by running the
-.I file
-command on the file.
-.PP
-The
-.B -attachformat
-option specifies the MIME header field formats: a value of
-.B 0
-includes the
-.I x-unix-mode
-attribute as noted above. A value of
-.BR 1 ,
-the default,
-suppresses that, puts the file name in the
-\*(lqContent-Description\*(rq header, and
-adds a \*(lqContent-Disposition\*(rq header. A value of
-.B 2
-adds the file
-.I modification-date
-parameter to the \*(lqContent-Disposition\*(rq header. You can
-specify one value in your profile, and override it for individual
-messages at the
-.I whatnow
-prompt.
-.PP
-Here are example message part headers, for an attachment, for each of the
-.B -attachformat
-values:
+Each attached MIME part contains a
+\*(lqContent-Description\*(rq header that includes the filename, and
+adds a \*(lqContent-Disposition\*(rq header.
+Here is an example of MIME part headers for an attachment:
.PP
.nf
--attachformat 0:
-Content-Type: text/plain; name="VERSION"; x-unix-mode="0644";
- charset="us-ascii"
-Content-Description: ASCII text
-
--attachformat 1:
Content-Type: text/plain; name="VERSION"; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Description: VERSION
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="VERSION"
-
--attachformat 2:
-Content-Type: text/plain; name="VERSION"; charset="us-ascii"
-Content-Description: VERSION
-Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="VERSION"; modification-date="Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:39:51 -0600"
.fi
.PP
If
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IR comp (1),
.IR dist (1),
+.IR file (1),
.IR forw (1),
+.IR mhparam (1),
.IR repl (1),
.IR whatnow (1),
.IR mh\-alias (5),
.RB ` \-noverbose '
.RB ` \-nowatch '
.RB ` "\-width\ 72" '
-.RB ` "\-attach\ Nmh-Attachment" '
-.RB ` "\-attachformat\ 1" '
.fi
.SH CONTEXT
None
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