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Re: [Nmh-workers] mhshow: invalid QUOTED-PRINTABLE encoding


From: pmaydell
Subject: Re: [Nmh-workers] mhshow: invalid QUOTED-PRINTABLE encoding
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:09:41 +0000

address@hidden wrote:
>On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 10:33:40 EST, Paul Fox said:
>> i believe there was consensus that a) this behavior was a result
>> of a problem with the original content encoding, and that b) the
>> nmh decoder should be more tolerant when decoding, and simply
>> pass mis-codings through untouched.
>
>I'd have to think *real* hard about that.

RFC 2045 is pretty clear about what MUAs should do in the face
of a bad encoding; the idea is to follow that. (Also, anything
you can get through with odd q-p you could have got through literally.)

-- PMM




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