procmail
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: How to convert to 8 bit mime format

2002-04-16 02:05:23

The procmailex(5) manpage describes how to do this for non-multipart
text/plain messages:

       The  following  example  preconverts  all  plain-text mail
       arriving in certain encoded MIME formats into a more  com-
       pact  8-bit  format  which  can be used and displayed more
       easily by most programs.  The mimencode(1) program is part
       of Nathaniel Borenstein's metamail package.
<recipe elided>


Doing this for multipart messages is seriously non-trivial.  Consider that
the decoded content may be found to contain the multipart boundary,
at which you either need to rewrite the boundary(ies) or leave
the part encoded.  Decoding is also likely to create problems with
cryptographically signed messages or those which have Content-Md5:
header field.


Philip Guenther
_______________________________________________
procmail mailing list
procmail(_at_)lists(_dot_)RWTH-Aachen(_dot_)DE
http://MailMan.RWTH-Aachen.DE/mailman/listinfo/procmail

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>