Re: [PATCH] Add a MIME-Version header to e-mails
On 2006-11-07 19:09:06 +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote:
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> 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. The headers are QP-encoded. The import command can
> decode messages properly and can also handle multipart e-mails.
>
> 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).
One potentially hazardous thing: you encode the mail before letting
the user edit it (with the -e and -E switches). This means that the
user can insert non-ascii characters in the body after you've already
decided it's safe to use 7bit encoding. It also means that the user
must be careful to rfc2047-encode any changes to the Subject: and
From: headers.
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Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>