On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 07:19:11PM -0500, kf-grb@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I use a short bash script to have mixminion-0.0.8alpha2 > send/post a prepared text file. Example: > > #!/bin/bash > # Use quotes for multiword headers: Re: soandso "Re: soandso" > #--recommended DONTWORK > #--X-No-Archive=Yes DONTWORK > #--subject="Re: s?m?s?bj?ct" DONTWORK > /home/.../mixmin/bin/mixminion send \ > -t mail2news-20070308-alt.test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx \ > -P "*3,banana" \ > --input=/home/.../mixmin/sourcefile.txt \ > --subject="Re: somesubject" \ > --references="" \ > --in-reply-to="" > > > I get barked at if the subject line contains accented > characters even if the whole string is enclosed in > double quotes. Is there a workaround for this (backslash > escape doesn't seem to cut it)? Probably, your best bet for now is to use RFC2047 encoding. (RFC2047 specifies ways to encode non-ASCII text into email headers.) > Also, in the wishlist department, I would far prefer > > - having all disclaimers in X-headers with a view to keeping > the readability/threadability as clean as possible I'm torn here; it's superficially a benefit to users and a liability to exit servers, but I'd prefer to let the exit servers decide, but I don't want users cherrypicking exit servers. Hard to say. > - some form of the --header syntax used in mixmaster that > allows assorted X-headers to be used/created This would need a protocol change, but it's a decent idea. There should probably be a list of headers that one isn't allowed to forge. > - the [Anon] prepended to 'From' appended instead so as > to support sender-based sortability. This seems superficially like a good idea. If I got a patch for any of these, I'd likely apply it if it were any good. > Finally, does anyone have some idea as to the date when > usenet posting will/might become functional? I don't think > I can use SURBS in conjunction with m2n... "When somebody implements it." Mixminion development is not getting a lot of energy right now. :/ peace, -- Nick Mathewson
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