[Nmh-workers] mhfixmsg refuses to decode binary content

[David Levine]

Jerrad wrote:

> I've not had a chance to dig through the code yet, but it
> just occurred to me hat it doesn't really matter whether
> or not nmh would like lines greater than 998 characters.

It does matter because the output from mhfixmsg can be a
message in an MH folder.  (You could use mhstore(1) to just
extract content, of course.)

> If does, then mhfixmsg could replace the HTML
> part with an un-transfer-encoded version, but the issue at
> hand is creating a plain text alternative. Can't mhfixmsg
> simply unencode a copy of the message in a buffer before
> comverting it to text/plain?

It does.  At this point, I don't understand your problem.
mhfixmsg adds text/plain parts all the time for me.  A
significant fraction of my incoming mail is text/html.
It's all handled properly, even if the original content is
binary, and then I see the same warning as you.

I would need to see exactly what you're trying to do if you
want me to investigate further.  Offline?

David