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multipart/alternative in QP encoding - mutt bug or user error?

[reposting as the other copy seems to be stuck somewhere in moderator-land]

Hi all.  Just come across a strange case: the headers of an email that
I received (supposedly from "X-Mailer: EMailSend TE Service") contain
the lines:

Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;

and when mutt tries to display the text part of this email, it gets
confused.

Now it's presumably an error to say that a multipart mail is in QP format
when in fact only the individual parts are, but I think that mutt should
either fail gracefully or work around the obvious error.  What say the
developers?

Attached is an example mbox that shows the problem on my system.  I
have mutt set not to auto-view any types except plain text, so when
it views this email it tries to show me the text part.  Mutt 1.4.1
simply shows it as blank, while 1.0.1 says "[-- Error: unexpected
end of file! --]".

On the other hand, if I press 'v' to view the attachments, both versions
display the correct text.

(I don't have mutt 1.5.x - maybe it's fixed already.)

imc
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