Re: [nmh-workers] mhshow: invalid BASE64 encoding in --

[David Levine]

Valdis wrote:

> Deciding whether the detection of an issue should
> be in the bse64 decoder or elsewhere is bikeshedding compared to trying
> to decide what semantics you want..

Identifying whether the issue is due to invalid base64 characters or due to an 
improperly constructed MIME part is prerequisite to deciding those semantics.

> The point is that accidentally glomming non-base64 data into the decoder
The nmh base64 decoder does a good job of not getting tripped by that, and I'd 
like to keep it that way.

David