Re: C-T-E: base64 and the real world.. what should an MUA do?

Valdis Klētnieks writes:
> Of course, the last 5 lines are bogus as base64, and it's easy to just 
> say "Majordomo is at fault".  But such things happen in the real 
> world, and what's the recommended algorithm for an MUA to recover 
> from this?

Stop decoding at '=' (that's two thirds of the cases). Stop decoding 
when you see "--" at the beginning of a line (that's most of the rest).

And if all else fails, following the rules in RFC 2045 result in a few 
random bytes at/after the end of the decoded data. Usually harmless.

Arnt