Merge branch 'master' of git.sv.nongnu.org:/srv/git/nmh

[nmh] / man / mhfixmsg.man

diff --git a/man/mhfixmsg.man b/man/mhfixmsg.man
index cac4d9e70d678386321ecac852223243b5fdaf84..629014d6c68470a6c5de46e0e0689e9766a45bf4 100644 (file)
--- a/man/mhfixmsg.man
+++ b/man/mhfixmsg.man
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH MHFIXMSG %manext1% "March 21, 2013" "%nmhversion%"
+.TH MHFIXMSG %manext1% "May 4, 2013" "%nmhversion%"
 .\"
 .\" %nmhwarning%
 .\"
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ rewrites MIME messages, applying specific transformations such as
 decoding of MIME-encoded message parts and repairing invalid MIME
 headers.
 .PP
-MIME messages are specified in RFC\-2045 to RFC\-2049
+MIME messages are specified in RFC 2045 to RFC 2049
 (see
 .IR mhbuild (1)).
 The
@@ -52,8 +52,18 @@ The
 .B \-decodetext
 switch enables a transformation to decode each base64 and
 quoted-printable text message part to the selected 8bit or 7bit
-encoding.  If the decoded text would not fit the selected encoding as
-defined by RFC-2045, the part is not decoded.
+encoding.  If 7bit is selected for a base64 part but it will only fit
+8bit, as defined by RFC 2045, then it will be decoded to 8bit
+quoted-printable.  Otherwise, if the decoded text would not fit the
+selected encoding, the part is not decoded (and a message will be
+displayed if
+.B \-verbose
+is enabled).
+.PP
+When the
+.B \-decodetext
+switch is enabled, each carriage return character that precedes a
+linefeed character is removed from ASCII-encoded text parts.
 .PP
 The
 .B \-textcodeset