Re: Problems with mixed encoding

On 30/09/2011 10:44 AM, Blake Winton wrote:
> 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.


Thanks,
Wolf K.