Re: What to use for displaying MIME?

Grant Edwards <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2007-03-29, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2007-03-29, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 2007-03-27, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Has anybody come up with anything usable for displayign MIME
>>> formatted postings?
>>
>>>   demime
>>
>> demime is working fairly well, except for one problem.  It
>> discards signed messages.
>
> It also discards other things as well as not handling nested
> parts.  I thought about trying to fix it, it but it's almost
> 3000 lines of Perl, and Perl makes me bleed from the ears.
>
> So I wrote a more capable replacement that handles nested
> parts, multipart/signed (doesn't actually verify sig), and will
> render html using w3m if it needs to.  And it's only 60 lines
> of code.
>
> Python rules. ;)
>
> If you'd like to try it:
>
>   http://www.visi.com/~grante/unmime.py

Oops.  Just found a rather serious problem.  My script removes
all of the headers -- which isn't bad when just reading, but
trying to reply is problematic...

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