Re: [Nmh-workers] Conflict between "mime" command and attach

[Ken Hornstein]

>What I like about attach is that it just does the right thing and I don't
>have to know how it does it internally.  It would be really nice if the
>same were true with other parts of the ui.  The nmh MIME support comes
>across to me as a wart.  No offense intended, it's a really useful wart and
>I use it every day.  But it's not really integrated into the ui in a pleasant
>way.

That's an unfortunate truth, and one that is a constant problem.
For example, this is exactly the issue we're dealing with here; MIME
composition was kind of grafted on the MH UI.  It didn't help that
the original vision of MIME was that normal email was still 7-bit ASCII
and MIME email was a rarity.  The world has moved on since those days,
but MH didn't keep up.  But we're slowly improving.

--Ken