Re: State of procmail [was Re: Is this the official procmail list?]

On 08/08/16 07:03, Bob Holtzman wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 07, 2016 at 10:59:04AM -0400, Erich Veyhl wrote:
>
>            ..........snip..........
>
>> "Just as importantly, the email landscape and the system administration
>> marketplace have not stood still since 2001, either. Ed Blackman noted t=
hat
>> procmail cannot correctly handle MIME headers adhering to RFC 2047 (which
>> include non-ASCII text), despite the fact that RFC 2047 dates back to 19=
96. RFC
>> 2047-formatted headers are far from mandatory, but they do continue to r=
ise in
>> frequency."
>> http://mailman.rwth-aachen.de/mailman/listinfo/procmail
> Suggestions?
>



I do not understand the problem.   The mime headers are plain-text, there is
no problem regarding to procmail recipes.

The boddy part of the mime is base64 that lot of decoders can deal with.

So, what is the connection between procmail and MIME?

--udi