[hylafax-users] AW: Text => Postscript converson in faxmail

["Martin Bene" <martin.bene@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Aidan,

> Of course - right, the text->ps is formatted internally, as part of
the
> e-mail.  That behaviour could easily be changed.
> 
> Do you still want the email headers formatted, or are you using the -N
> switch too?

No, I don't need the headers, output is tuened off using the above
switch.

> What we really want is a "flexible" way to allow user/admin to specify
> exactly which parts of a message (headers, mime parts, certain
> attachements).  Do you have any ideas on the best way to do that?  I'm
> certainly willing to work an a patch that can implement this type of
> stuff - I just haven't figured out how it should look to users.

Well, I found the previously used converters based on mime type quite
nice. The content - based classification used by typerules effectively
discards valuable information (i.e the mime-type) present in the email
structure.

The current handling based on partial mime doesn't semm optimal - while
the internal conversion can deal with text/plain, the results you get
for text/html parts are certainly not useful :-)

I think that all parts of a message  (text/plain, text/html,
attachments) should be handled equaly; I'm not 100% sure how to best
deal with the headers/metainformation.

A possible scenario could look like this:

* create a postscript file using the internal converter containing only
meta-information from the email (headers, sender/recipient information,
whatever); submit as postscript file

* treat all parts of a multipart/mime message, like attachments, i.e try
converting them based on typerules file and submit them as separate
documents.

* I would love to have the added flexibility of the mimeconverters back:
for each part of the multipart message, first check if there's a
converter for the specified mime type. Use if it exists and try
converting via typerules if there's no converter.

Currently, I'm running a patched faxmail with mimeconverters added back
in.

Thanks, Martin


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