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Re: Curiose encoding...



Hello Rocco,

Am 2006-06-09 13:25:56, schrieb Rocco Rutte:
> [ I'm taking this mutt-dev. Someone got a mail with ANSI_X3.4-1968 in a 
> RfC2047-encoded word in a mail's subject and mutt fails to detect and 
> hence decode it since it contains MIME-special characters (the dot) 
> though it elsewhere in charset.c has a mapping for it to its MIME name. ]

Thanks.

> I agree that mutt must not send out something like this. However, mutt 
> already has quite a number of features to be more robust against 
> standard-violating input like RfC2047-encoded parameters. And if it's 
> not too expensive, I vote for catching such errors.

Thank you.  Me too.

> So it's a feature request to make mutt use the same alias mapping table 
> for RfC2047-encoded words if it doesn't find a valid MIME character set 
> name as a last chance.
> 
> I can implement that if there are chances of getting into CVS and people 
> want it...

I use mutt, even under X, because it is the best MUA availlable.
So I like to see mutt handling some stupid E-Mails...

Greetings
    Michelle Konzack


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