Re: Problems with mixed encoding

On 11-09-30 10:23 , Greywolf wrote:
> One of the posters to a NG I monitor uses Turnpike (a no-longer updated
> email client and newsreader.) Turnpike marks all outgoing news posts as
> mime encoded (in the header), but uses uuencode for images (so marked in
> the body of the message). The result is that TB treats the image file as
> a text file. From other posters' replies, it appears that TB cannot
> witch decoding mode when part of a message is encoded differently than
> the message header shows. I think that's a bug. Can it be fixed?
>
> Please don't refer to me to the bug-report site, it's a PITA to use.

I've forwarded your message to the person who has most-recently touched 
our attachment handling code.  I suspect we'll gather some data about 
what sort of malformed messages are out in the wild, and then write code 
to handle as many of them as make sense.

Thank you for your bug report, ;)
Blake.