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

Florian Weimer writes:
> Actually, the RFC *requires* skipping non-base64 characters.

That requirement is considerably modified by the sentence after it:

    All line breaks or other characters not
    found in Table 1 must be ignored by decoding software.  In base64
    data, characters other than those in Table 1, line breaks, and other
    white space probably indicate a transmission error, about which a
    warning message or even a message rejection might be appropriate
    under some circumstances.

My code first tries to find the end of the base64 data (as intended by 
the sender, I mean). Only after finding an end does it call the base64 
decoder. It wasn't too difficult to write.

Arnt