Tim Starling wrote:
We still haven't heard from Faidon who, last I
heard, still reads his
emails by piping telnet into less or something. But I think he can
make sense of multipart/alternative as long as it's not base-64
encoded...
I'm not Faidon, and I'm not even a regular contributor to this list,
but as a data point of almost vanishingly possible interest, I can
say that the above isn't even much of an exaggeration for the
suitably old-guard set. Me, I read mail using a shell script
'mshow', which boils down to a selective cat from $MAIL into more,
and gratuitous base-64 encoding is indeed an issue, causing me to
pretty regularly have to type
mshow | mailbody | b64 -d | more
I have really got to automate that some day.