MIME decoding improperly

I sent this to exmh-users this morning, but it appears to be a fairly
low-traffic list.

Also, I learned about mhstore sometime after I sent this message and
tried processing the faulty message out with it.  It also properly
writes the attachment.

--nate

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> From nate Thu Sep 11 09:56:23 2003
> Subject: MIME decoding improperly
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:56:23 -0400 (EDT)
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> 
> EHLO all,
> 
> I've recently discovered a problem with exmh.  One of the faculty
> members I work for has found that in certain HTML attachments, all of
> the "=" characters are being changed into "ÿ" characters (dec 255) when
> he tries to view/save the attachment.  Moreover, a PDF sent to him was
> turned ENTIRELY into "ÿ" characters.
> 
> I'm happily willing to accept that this is a misconfiguration on MY
> part of exmh or exmh's underlying systems.  However, I can't really
> find much on how exmh handles MIME?  Does it pass it off to metamail?
> It appears that it doesn't (and if I save the attachment manually with
> metamail, it is not corrupted).  Some docs seemed to indicate that Tcl
> handles MIME, whereas others indicate it's nmh?
> 
> Is anyone familiar with this or a similar situation?  I'm not sure
> where to look.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> --nate
> 
> --------
> nathan coraor
> cse it support
> [email protected]
> 
>