Re: Duplicate Mime-version error with 1.7.5

On 29 Jun 2004 11:22:26 GMT
Urs Janßen <[email protected]> wrote:

> the extra mime-headers might come from tin itself via tin/attributes.
> ~/.tin doesn't check if the user 'hand'-supplies
> mime-headers; this is some kind of bug we should fix somehow. the big
> pÃŒroblem here is what we should do if there are some hand-supplied
> mime headers. overwrite them? don't add our mime-headers? overwriting
> has the disadvantage that we might break nested mime-structures. no
> replacing them might lead to bogus mime articles (hand supplied
> header says CTE=quoted-printable, but body is in 8bit, etc.pp.)

Ok, i should drink more tea as i had some mime-headers in my
~/.tin/headers

I've added them while tin didn't put ifself mime-version,
content-transfer-encoding and content-type headers in an old version (you
adviced me to declare those in either the attributes or headers file).

> currently post_8bit_header=ON (not recommended) will never add any
> mime-headers and can be used if one likes to compose (multipart) mime
> articles by hand. post_8bit_header=OFF (recommended) will add
> mime-headers whenever they are needed. unfortunately we do not check
> for any usersupplied headers here. IMHO we should overwrite them - if
> the uer really likes to hand-compose mime-articles he could/should
> use post_8bit_header=ON.

Indeed.

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