Re: [Nmh-workers] base64 ... just looking for advice

[David Levine]

Ken wrote:

> according to the RFCs (see RFC 2046, §4.1.1, paragraph 1).
>
> Now, should mhfixmsg correct that?  Weeelll ... good question.  The
> reason it is happening is because our MIME parser is now doing the
> 'right' thing, and essentially the whole message is being regenerated.
> Fixing that would involve telling the base64 parser to not perform the
> line ending translation for (some) text parts.  Part of me sees the
> point about not modifying parts of messages you haven't told it to, but
> a (larger) part of me thinks: seriously?

mhfixmsg currently strips CRs out of text parts that it's decoding,  which is 
wrong.  I'll fix that, with default behavior.  But I plan to add an option to 
strip/not add CRs.

David