Re: MIME headers in Procmail

Stanisław Findeisen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.procmail
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2011-07-08 04:59, John Levine wrote:
> As I expect everyone is aware, you can use MIME hackery in mail
> headers to include non-ASCII text in just about everything other than
> the actual e-mail address.  Writing patterns to match MIME stuff is
> painful, since there's about a dozen character sets with somewhat
> different encoding, and if they do base64 encoding, the coded values
> change depending on where in the string the characters are.
> 
> So it would be handy if there were an option to interpret all the MIME
> and turn all the text into UTF-8 which (assuming they are 8 bit clean)
> existing regex code should handle.
> 
> Anyone done that?  Thought about it?
> 
> Regards,
> John Levine, [email protected], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
> Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly

http://people.eisenbits.com/~stf/fsd/conv2047/

I am using this together with formail(1) to decode subject (or other)
lines, grep them for strings, alter them and encode them back.

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