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Re: [Nmh-workers] Mailing list archives busticated

2014-04-20 21:36:02
Nice of you to take the blame, but the real blame is the brain dead
parsing code in mhonarc, which appears I never really tested.  Why the
problem was never discovered before is beyond me (likely since attribute
parts are rarely used in the wild).

I don't look at the headers of every message I get, but I did check my
mailbox for examples when I was writing the RFC 2231 parser.  I have
never seen an extended MIME parameter on a Content-Type header "in the
wild", but I do see them all of the time on Content-Disposition headers
(when the filenames get really long).  So if you're not parsing the
Content-Disposition header, it doesn't surprise me that you'd never
encounter them; when you think about it, there really aren't that many
MIME parameters out there in common use.

I've updated the archiving software on mhonarc.org that contains a fix
to the problem, so the nmh-workers (HTML) archive there should be
updating again: <http://www.mhonarc.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/>.

Thanks!

--Ken

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