Maybe that option is on by default in some other versions -- I was just running whatever came with Mandrake 6.mumble (which is probably the same as shipped with similarly-numbered versions of Red Hat).
I'll let someone Pine doesn't act evil towards (like maybe someone who actually uses it) do the experiments with forcing the MIME-type. But I'm willing to be a test recipient of email and describe how it arrives.
Even if it hadn't moved all my mail out of /var/spool/mail/dglenn, losing the "New" flag would've been annoying. Less scary, but annoying. I don't understand why there isn't an "exit without making any changes on disk" option.
But as long as I'm griping about MUAs, I wish I knew why the Linux version(s) of /bin/mail don't honor the "editheaders" variable that worked on Xenix 3.x, various flavours of BSD, SunOS, and most other Unices I've used. And neither the Linux version nor the most recent couple of SunOS versions honor "noautombox", which I used to find rather convenient. (Now I have to remember to type "ho *" before I quit-with-changes.) So even my preferred MUA isn't perfect; it just fails to be evil.
Emacs doesn't like me either, but at least it's not sneaky about it.
Re: a couple small notes
I'll let someone Pine doesn't act evil towards (like maybe someone who actually uses it) do the experiments with forcing the MIME-type. But I'm willing to be a test recipient of email and describe how it arrives.
Even if it hadn't moved all my mail out of /var/spool/mail/dglenn, losing the "New" flag would've been annoying. Less scary, but annoying. I don't understand why there isn't an "exit without making any changes on disk" option.
But as long as I'm griping about MUAs, I wish I knew why the Linux version(s) of /bin/mail don't honor the "editheaders" variable that worked on Xenix 3.x, various flavours of BSD, SunOS, and most other Unices I've used. And neither the Linux version nor the most recent couple of SunOS versions honor "noautombox", which I used to find rather convenient. (Now I have to remember to type "ho *" before I quit-with-changes.) So even my preferred MUA isn't perfect; it just fails to be evil.
Emacs doesn't like me either, but at least it's not sneaky about it.