Re: [Nmh-workers] rebuilding a borked MIME multipart/ structure?

[David Levine]

Valdis wrote:

> Outlook/Exchange sends a borked MIME structure for meeting invites, that
> is stacked like this:
>
> multipart/alternative
>     text/html
>     text/plain
>     text/calendar

Per kre's observation, are you sure that isn't:

multipart/alternative
    text/plain
    text/html
    text/calendar

> Which of course in any standard-compliant MUA will almost certainly do
> one of the first two and never bother looking at the third one.

Just to note that the git HEAD mhshow does render the text/calendar part.

> The simplest way to handle it in exmh is to beat it up while procmail has
> hold of it, to a better form:
>
> multipart/related
>     multipart/alternative
>         text/html
>         text/plain
>     text/calendar
>
> Any better ideas than applying BFI techniques to strip out the text/calendar,
> and then re-wrapping the result with a /related and repackaging?

Can exmh somehow handle the output of the latest nmh (mhshow)?

It also supports accept/decline/tentative replies to iCalendar
requests, though I don't know if you care about that.

> It doesn't look like mhfixmsg is able to do that sort of re-write...

No.  It wouldn't be difficult.  But per another of kre's observations,
the structure isn't necessarily incorrect.  In fact, the ones I
receive are OK:  all three parts have the same content but in varying
forms, in the proper order.

David