Re: [Nmh-workers] why does mhfixmsg dislike long text lines?

[David Levine]

Ken wrote:

> >> That's a question for David, since mhfixmsg is his baby.  I would suggest
> >> that was probably an oversight and he might fix it at some point (and
> >> by "fix it" I mean, "refuse to decode it", but that's up to him).
> >
> >I thought that mhfixmsg DID refuse to decode it:
> >
> >   mhfixmsg: /tmp/msg, will not decode text/html;  charset="UTF-8" because 
> > it is binary (line length > 998)
>
> Well, Steven also said that it worked fine for a super-long text/html
> part that was quoted-printable, that's what I was specifically referring
> to.  But I see that the check in mhfixmsg should occur for either base64
> or quoted-printable, so maybe there was a CR/LF in there that wasn't
> obvious.

I still see nothing broken here.  Counterexamples welcome.

David