Re: [PATCH] Add a MIME-Version header to e-mails

From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Nov 8, 2006, 08:40 UTC
Message-ID: <20061108084038.GA3164@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <b0943d9e0611071109w584f4f7fv3ba1b7dbd9413717@mail.gmail.com>

On 2006-11-07 19:09:06 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:

> I re-implemented parts of the mail and import commands (inspiring
> from your patches). They now use the email Python package. The mail
> command encodes the body to 7 or 8bit depending on non-ascii
> characters.

Even though it turned out to be possible to use 8bit always?

> The headers are QP-encoded.

Strictly speaking, it's rfc2047-encoded. I think the options are QP and base64.

> The import command can decode messages properly and can also handle
> multipart e-mails.

Goodie.

> I still have to write a test script but my simple tests showed that
> it works. Please let me know if there is anything wrong (especially
> with the QP-encoding of the mail headers).

I won't have time to check this out today (in fact, it may have to wait until the weekend). But when I do check it out, I might have time to write that test, so please holler if you start working on that.

-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com