-.TH MHBUILD %manext1% "%nmhdate%" MH.6.8 [%nmhversion%]
+.TH MHBUILD %manext1% "March 21, 2013" "%nmhversion%"
.\"
.\" %nmhwarning%
.\"
.RB [ \-realsize " | " \-norealsize ]
.RB [ \-headers " | " \-noheaders ]
.RB [ \-directives " | " \-nodirectives ]
-.RB [ \-ebcdicsafe " | " \-noebcdicsafe ]
.RB [ \-rfc934mode " | " \-norfc934mode ]
.RB [ \-contentid " | " \-nocontentid ]
.RB [ \-verbose " | " \-noverbose ]
.PP
.B mhbuild
creates multi-media messages as specified in RFC\-2045
-thru RFC\-2049. Currently
+to RFC\-2049. Currently
.B mhbuild
only supports encodings in
message bodies, and does not support the encoding of message headers as
type=tar; \\
conversions=compress \\
[this is the nmh distribution] \\
- {application; filename="nmh.tar.gz"} \\
+ {attachment; filename="nmh.tar.gz"} \\
name="nmh.tar.gz"; \\
directory="/pub/nmh"; \\
site="ftp.math.gatech.edu"; \\
.RS 5
.nf
.ta \w'access-type= 'u
-access-type= usually \fIanon-ftp\fR or \fImail-server\fR
+access-type= usually \fIanon-ftp\fR, \fImail-server\fR, or \fIurl\fR
name= filename
permission= read-only or read-write
site= hostname
server= mailbox
subject= subject to send
body= command to send for retrieval
+url= URL of content
.fi
.RE
.PP
+A mimimum \*(lqexternal\-type\*(rq directive for the
+.B url
+.I access\-type
+would be as follows:
+.PP
+.RS 3
+.nf
+#@application/octet-stream [] access-type=url; \\
+ url="http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/nmh/nmh-1.5.tar.gz"
+.fi
+.RE
+.PP
+Any long URLs will be wrapped according to RFC\-2017 rules.
+.PP
The \*(lqmessage\*(rq directive (#forw) is used to specify a message or
group of messages to include. You may optionally specify the name of
the folder and which messages are to be forwarded. If a folder is not
.B mhbuild
is given the
.B \-check
-switch, then it will also associate
-an integrity check with each \*(lqleaf\*(rq content. This will add a
-Content-MD5 header field to the content, along with the md5 sum of the
-unencoded contents. This may be used by the receiver of the message to
-verify that the contents of the message were not changed in transport.
+switch, then it will also associate an integrity check with each
+\*(lqleaf\*(rq content. This will add a Content-MD5 header field to
+the content, along with the md5 sum of the unencoded contents, per RFC
+1864. This may be used by the receiver of the message to verify that
+the contents of the message were not changed in transport.
.SS "Transfer Encodings"
After
.B mhbuild
a transfer encoding, even it the content contains only 7\-bit data. This
is to increase the likelihood that the content is not changed while in
transport.
-.PP
-The switch
-.B \-ebcdicsafe
-will cause
-.B mhbuild
-to slightly change
-the way in which it performs the \*(lqquoted-printable\*(rq transfer
-encoding. Along with encoding 8\-bit characters, it will now also encode
-certain common punctuation characters as well. This slightly reduces the
-readability of the message, but allows the message to pass more reliably
-through mail gateways which involve the EBCDIC character encoding.
.SS "Invoking mhbuild"
Typically,
.B mhbuild
- is invoked by the
+is invoked by the
.B whatnow
program. This
command will expect the body of the draft to be formatted as an
.fi
.RE
.SH FILES
+.B mhbuild
+looks for additional user profile files and mhn.defaults in multiple
+locations: absolute pathnames are accessed directly, tilde expansion
+is done on usernames, and files are searched for in the user's
+.I Mail
+directory as specified in their profile. If not found there, the directory
+.RI \*(lq %etcdir% \*(rq
+is checked.
+.PP
.fc ^ ~
.nf
.ta \w'%etcdir%/ExtraBigFileName 'u
.I "Proposed Standard for Message Encapsulation"
(RFC\-934),
.PP
+.I "The Content-MD5 Header Field"
+(RFC\-1864),
+.PP
.I "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies"
(RFC\-2045),
.PP
.PP
.I "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples"
(RFC\-2049)
+.I "Definition of the URL MIME External-Body Access-Type"
+(RRC\-2017)
.SH DEFAULTS
.nf
.RB ` \-headers '
.RB ` \-norfc934mode '
.RB ` \-contentid '
.RB ` \-nocheck '
-.RB ` \-noebcdicsafe '
.RB ` \-noverbose '
.fi