MUAs Testing Results
Product: mh
URL: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/
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Environment: FreeBSD 2.2
Test date: 1998-03, 1998-06

1. Results of the test
 
mh
Charset 
 ISO 8859-1  
Latin 1		 KOI8-R  
Russian		 KOI8-U 
Ukrainian		 Windows  
Cyrillic CP1251		 ISO 8859-2 
Latin 2		 ISO 8859-4 
Latin4 
Scandinavian/ Baltic		  
test-1 (Displaying) Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-2 (Printing) Pass  Pass Pass Pass      
test-3 
(Replying with non-ASCII A, S)		 Pass  Pass Pass Pass       
test-4 
(Replying with non-ASCII Body)		 Pass  Pass  Pass  Pass       
test-5  
(Replying Copy& Paste)		 Pass  Pass  Pass  Pass       
test-6 
(Forwarding)		 Pass  Pass Pass  Pass       
test-7 
(Typing on kbd)		 Pass (2) Pass (2) Pass (2) Pass (2)      
test-8 
(Exch non-ASCII default) 		              
test-9 
(UTF7/UTF8)		 Fail  Fail Fail Fail       
Comment:
*
(2) Depends on Terminal Settings
(3) Only Text displayed.

2. Examination of Multilingual features of Mail User’s Agents
 
mh SETUPs and First Examination 

1. SETUP>CONFIG 

  • enable 8-bit esmtp negotiation
  • enable 8-bit nntp posting
2. ML support is defined by Font setting in Telnet/Terminal programs (Telnet, F-Ecure SSH) 

3. Allow charset setting: character-set 

4. Don’t depend ot LOCALE (?) 

setenv LANG ru_RU.KOI8-R 

setenv MM_CHARSET KOI8-R
 

3. Free form documenting of testing process

Tested MUA - mh
Reference MUA - Netscape Mail 3.01 Gold
 
mh READ 
  1. Need to switch Message>language for each message
  2. Problems with Displaying Subject in Russian
  3. Use font setting for Message List and Message Subject only for default language English

    4. but MESSAGE >Language choice works properly message body 
  4. Message body first displayed with default language but you can switch language for current message by MESSAGE >Language
  5. Can not read QP in Message header
mh COMPOSE 
  1. Can type message body in selected language using KBD
mh SEND 
  1. Send As Is
mh RECOMMENDATION