Re: Viewer filter for UUencoded files

On Fri, 14 May 2004 10:51:48 +0200 (Romance Daylight Time) Vadim Zeitlin <[email protected]> wrote:

> you're creating a pseudo MIME part for the uuencoded contents,
> right? If so, everything should work as expected.

Exactly. The only point is that (almost) all the MIME headers of
this fake MIME part are empty, but it seems to work correctly
nevertheless. I only implemented what I discovered to be necessary.

This idea of building a MIME part from some data is also what's
necessary to implement decrypting of messages: it's just that the
decoding would be done by GPG instead. This should be very easy to
do for inline encrypted messages (that can only give back some text
or a single file, and I think all the code is already there), but it
will probably be a little trickier to handle PGP-MIME encrypted
messages, as those do give back a full MIME structure. At this
point, the MimePartRaw class that I implemented would probably break
(or lack features).

> this is a useful feature (even > 10 years after MIME
> standardization...) 

I was quite amazed to receive uuencoded files from a Microsoft Exchange
user. I would never have thought of that. I wonder on what criterion
Exchange decides between uuencoding and MIME...

-- 
Xavier Nodet
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759.

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