X-Git-Url: https://diplodocus.org/git/nmh/blobdiff_plain/c59d387888272695ccf163a8057275dbdc77afd0..ccafa1944:/man/mhbuild.man?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/man/mhbuild.man b/man/mhbuild.man index ce84f48f..57441dad 100644 --- a/man/mhbuild.man +++ b/man/mhbuild.man @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH MHBUILD %manext1% "%nmhdate%" MH.6.8 [%nmhversion%] +.TH MHBUILD %manext1% "January 4, 2013" "%nmhversion%" .\" .\" %nmhwarning% .\" @@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ mhbuild \- translate MIME composition draft .RB [ \-realsize " | " \-norealsize ] .RB [ \-headers " | " \-noheaders ] .RB [ \-directives " | " \-nodirectives ] -.RB [ \-ebcdicsafe " | " \-noebcdicsafe ] .RB [ \-rfc934mode " | " \-norfc934mode ] .RB [ \-contentid " | " \-nocontentid ] .RB [ \-verbose " | " \-noverbose ] @@ -467,11 +466,11 @@ If .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 @@ -490,21 +489,10 @@ will encode each content with 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 @@ -675,6 +663,9 @@ line ::= "##" text EOL .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 @@ -696,6 +687,5 @@ line ::= "##" text EOL .RB ` \-norfc934mode ' .RB ` \-contentid ' .RB ` \-nocheck ' -.RB ` \-noebcdicsafe ' .RB ` \-noverbose ' .fi