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Re: [Nmh-workers] Quoted printable problem

2012-12-18 14:05:50
David wrote:
RFC 2045, Sec. 6.4:

   If an entity is of type "multipart" the
   Content-Transfer-Encoding is not permitted to have any
   value other than "7bit", "8bit" or "binary".

Would you or anyone else notify KMail?  I'm looking into
Alpine and will notify them if they have a bug.

After reading some of there bug reports I think they know that
already and have fixed similiar issues in the past. I don't what
I can do besides voting these bugs to raise the importance...

I wonder why this issue keeps getting back after they fixed it
(according to their BTS) several times. See
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108939

of even 
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1492

for some really old instance of this.

Ken wrote:
One seems to be https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=296629

So, the activity on this bug suggests that we're not the only one who
has issues with this malformed MIME; other prominent MUAs (and listserv
software) refuse to parse this email.  My previous thinking was that if
nmh was the only client in the world that refused to deal with this then
there was absolutely no hope of getting the rest of the world on board,
but since we're not the only one there is a chance that enough people
will complain that offending software will get fixed.

Indeed. OTOH this issue seems to come back at about the same rate as
people upgrade their MUA ... :(
 
But still ... choking on this just sticks in my craw.  What do people
think of a -force option (or something similar) that can override MIME
consistency checks like this one?

As somebody who has to read the occasional message from my contact
via less since about two years: I'm not sure if it is worth the
effort and extra complexity:

If you see an easy way to handle this type of malformed messages
gracefully without adding options, writing new documentation for them,
etc. then great: nmh is a MUA and not MIMElint.

If there is no easy solution and I need to read the occasional
message in less, I don't mind too much. I'd rather see proper MIME
support in nmh than worry about support for broken MIME.

Maybe I'll change my opinion about the last statement once I have
to exract attachments from broken messages...

Harald

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