jaucar <[email protected]> posted 1230338015.7191.1.ca...@jaucar-desktop, excerpted below, on Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:33:35 +0100:
> I cannot send binary enclosed files with Pan. I suppose that it is not > contemplated. Can one make somehow? > Is there intention in the future of implementing the option of sending > enclosed files to the style of Xnews? It's the intention, yes. There was, some years ago, even a file picker GUI in one of the betas. Unfortunately Charles decided to pull it as he wasn't satisfied with a "trivial" single-part posting mechanism (which it would have been at that point), and wanted a nice fancy multi-part poster, etc. Only the code for that somehow has never gotten written... IMO it would have been better to go with the trivial single-part attachment code and have it all these years, than not have any. At least that would have taken care of some cases, and the below would have continued to work for the big-volume poster. For big-volume posts, the recommendation has always been newspost. It was designed for batch-posting and the like and handles it well, tho it's a bit long in the tooth now as it only handles PAR-1 IIRC and doesn't handle some of the other "recent" binary advances, at least automatically. For trivial single-shot single-part binaries, one can either use another client (such as knode) which handles attachments, or... you can still use pan to do attachments the old fashioned way... manually encode them (using uuencode or yencode or uuenview or whatever), then copy and paste the resulting encoded text into pan. Unfortunately it only takes UUE format, as the editor won't handle the near-binary of yenc (the widget pan uses enforces UTF-8 natively, or some such, then converts it to whatever character encoding before send, and yenc isn't legal utf-8) and there's no way to access the headers, etc, to create a properly formated MIME/base-64 post. I did, however, create a script-based pan attachment helper, that plugs in using pan's "external editor" feature. The idea is to download the script, then setup pan's external editor functionality to point to it. You can then hit the external editor button, and the script will take over from there. There's actually a couple versions of the script, pan-attach and pan- attach-kd. The former is extremely rough, so much so that I had trouble using my own creation, but it was designed as a proof of concept, hoping someone else would take the concept and run with it. It's still available because it only requires pan, bash, and uuenview (from the uudeview package to do the actual encoding), while the -kd version also requires kdialog, part of kdebase (at least the 3.x version, I'm not sure about 4.x). When nobody ever stepped up to provide a proper front-end, I eventually created pan-attach-kd, which is MUCH more friendly if still a bit rigid and awkward. It uses kdialog to create dialog boxes for the file picker and etc. I never got any feedback on the original, probably because it was simply too difficult to use. However, several folks responded favorably to pan-attach-kd when I announced it, and apparently still use it, as I do, for my occasional trivial attachments. I should update it someday using some of the suggestions I got, and check into whether it works with KDE4, which I've yet to upgrade to, as well. Here's my site. Nothing to brag about but you'll find both pan-attach and pan-attach-kd there, if you want to check them out. I should update it too... =:^) http://members.cox.net/pu61ic.1inux.dunc4n/ -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
