Added recommendation to use nmh-storage profile setting or

[nmh] / man / mhfixmsg.man

diff --git a/man/mhfixmsg.man b/man/mhfixmsg.man
index 9996d304ba0407920fb342aed3811160a3571f15..ea342330c9dceccb69a830c2ee71faed425f2212 100644 (file)
--- a/man/mhfixmsg.man
+++ b/man/mhfixmsg.man
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MHFIXMSG %manext1% "May 4, 2013" "%nmhversion%"
+.TH MHFIXMSG %manext1% "February 8, 2014" "%nmhversion%"
 .\"
 .\" %nmhwarning%
 .\"
@@ -9,19 +9,20 @@ mhfixmsg \- rewrite MIME messages with various transformations
 .na
 .B mhfixmsg
 .RI [ +folder ]
-.RI [ msgs ]
+.RI [ msgs " | "
+.IR "absolute pathname" " | "
+.RB \-file
+.IR file ]
 .RB [ \-decodetext
 8bit/7bit |
 .BR \-nodecodetext ]
-.RB [ \-textcodeset
-.I codeset
-.RB "| " \-notextcodeset ]
+.RB [ \-textcharset
+.I charset
+.RB "| " \-notextcharset ]
 .RB [ \-reformat " | " \-noreformat ]
 .RB [ \-replacetextplain " | " \-noreplacetextplain ]
 .RB [ \-fixboundary " | " \-nofixboundary ]
 .RB [ \-fixcte " | " \-nofixcte ]
-.RB [ \-file
-.IR file ]
 .RB [ \-outfile
 .IR outfile ]
 .RB [ \-rmmproc
@@ -64,14 +65,15 @@ is enabled).
 When the
 .B \-decodetext
 switch is enabled, each carriage return character that precedes a
-linefeed character is removed from ASCII-encoded text parts.
+linefeed character is removed from text parts encoded in ASCII,
+ISO-8859-x, UTF-8, or Windows-12xx.
 .PP
 The
-.B \-textcodeset
+.B \-textcharset
 switch specifies that all text/plain parts of the message(s)
 should be converted to
-.IR codeset .
-Codeset conversions require that
+.IR charset .
+Charset conversions require that
 .B nmh
 be built with
 .IR iconv (3).
@@ -154,7 +156,12 @@ switch directs
 .B mhfixmsg
 to use the specified
 file as the source message, rather than a message from a folder.
-If this file is \*(lq-\*(rq, then
+Only one file argument may be provided.  The
+.B \-file
+switch is implied if
+.I file
+is an absolute pathname.
+If the file is \*(lq-\*(rq, then
 .B mhfixmsg
 accepts the source message on the standard input stream.  If
 the
@@ -207,7 +214,7 @@ content type and/or encoding as follows:
 .nf
 .ta \w'\-fixboundary 'u
 \-decodetext   base64 and quoted-printable encoded text parts
-\-textcodeset  text/plain parts
+\-textcharset  text/plain parts
 \-reformat     text parts that are not text/plain
 \-fixboundary  outermost multipart part
 \-fixcte       multipart part
@@ -237,6 +244,24 @@ profile component and negates all prior
 .B \-rmmproc
 switches.
 .PP
+.SS "Integration with inc"
+.B mhfixmsg
+can be used as an add-hook, as described in %docdir%/README-HOOKS.
+Note that add-hooks are called from all
+.B nmh
+programs that add a message to a folder, not just
+.BR inc .
+Alternatively, a simple shell alias or function can be used to
+call
+.B mhfixmsg
+immediately after a successful invocation of
+.BR inc .
+For example, with bash:
+.PP
+.RS 5
+alias inc='inc && mhfixmsg'
+.RE
+.PP
 .SS "Integration with procmail"
 By way of example, here is an excerpt from a procmailrc file
 that filters messages through
@@ -295,6 +320,8 @@ is checked.
 ^rmmproc:~^Program to delete original messages or files
 .fi
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
+.IR inc (1),
+.IR iconv (3),
 .IR mh-profile (5),
 .IR mhbuild (1),
 .IR mhlist (1),
@@ -309,7 +336,7 @@ is checked.
 .RB ` +folder "' defaults to the current folder"
 .RB ` msgs "' defaults to cur"
 .RB ` "\-decodetext 8bit"'
-.RB ` \-notextcodeset '
+.RB ` \-notextcharset '
 .RB ` \-reformat '
 .RB ` \-noreplacetextplain '
 .RB ` \-fixboundary '
@@ -321,4 +348,5 @@ If a folder is given, it will become the current folder.  The last
 message selected from a folder will become the current message.  If
 the
 .B \-file
-switch is used, the context will not be modified.
+switch or an absolute pathname is used, the context will not be
+modified.