Bug#285914: metamail: 8-bit encoding is supported by metamail but not by metasend script

[Sergey Kogan <kogan@sklad.bacon.ru>]

Package: metamail
Version: 2.7-46
Severity: normal
Tags: patch



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux kogan 2.4.25 #18 Mon Jun 28 16:55:20 OMSST 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.koi8r, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.koi8r

Versions of packages metamail depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                 5.4-3        Shared libraries for terminal hand

-- no debconf information
8-bit text/plain e-mail are common in ex-USSR countries. Metamail itself
works with 8-bit transfer-encoding just fine, but metasend script treats
-e "8bit" like -e "quoted-printable". Attached patch should fix this
problem.

*** metasend.old	Thu Dec 16 17:55:09 2004
--- metasend.new	Thu Dec 16 17:58:57 2004
***************
*** 135,144 ****
--- 135,145 ----
  		    encode=$1
  		    case "$encode" in
  			"base64")	encodingprog="mimencode -b";;
  			"x-uue")	encodingprog="uuencode \$datafile";;
  			"7bit")		encodingprog=cat;;
+ 			"8bit")		encodingprog=cat;;
  			*)		encodingprog="mimencode -q"
  					encode=quoted-printable ;;
  		    esac
  		    shift ;;
  
***************
*** 322,331 ****
--- 323,333 ----
  			echo "Do you want to encode this data for sending through the mail?"
  			echo "  1 -- No, it is already in 7 bit ASCII"
  			echo "  2 -- Yes, encode in base64 (most efficient)"
  			echo "  3 -- Yes, encode in quoted-printable (less efficient, more readable)"
  			echo "  4 -- Yes, encode it using uuencode (not standard, being phased out)"
+ 			echo "  5 -- No, it is 8 bit extended ASCII"
  			read encode
  			looping=0
  			case "$encode" in
  				1) encodingprog=cat
  				   encode=7bit ;;
***************
*** 333,342 ****
--- 335,346 ----
  				   encode=base64 ;;
  				3) encodingprog="mimencode -q"
  				   encode=quoted-printable ;;
  				4) encodingprog="uuencode $datafile"
  				   encode=x-uue ;;
+ 				5) encodingprog=cat
+ 				   encode=8bit ;;
  				*) echo Unrecognized answer, please try again.
  				   looping=1 ;;
  			esac
  		done
  	    fi
***************
*** 423,432 ****
--- 427,437 ----
  	else
  		case "$encode" in
  			base64) encodingprog="mimencode -b" ;;
  			x-uue)  encodingprog="uuencode $datafile" ;;
  			7bit)   encodingprog=cat ;;
+ 			8bit)   encodingprog=cat ;;
  			*) encodingprog="mimencode -q"
  			   encode=quoted-printable ;;
  		esac
  	fi
  fi