Re: Bug or feature? You decide... :)
Neil W Rickert <[email protected]>
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[email protected] wrote on Nov 15, 2007: >So I've recently been getting a bunch of mail that exmh displays as >a text/plain that looks like a base-64 encoded .GIF. Examining the >actual mail shows that it *is* a base-64 encoded .GIF - with a small >botch in the encoding. It has a trailing blank on the last line. Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I don't see that as a problem (meaning that I agree this is an exmh bug). My reading of the standards (and I admit it has been a while since I read them), is that both base-64 and quoted-printable encoding are supposed to protect against trailing blanks that might be added by the transport. Therefore one is supposed to remove all trailing blanks before decoding. I'll readily grant that some mime tools (including metamail) do not properly remove trailing blanks. I think they should. -NWR