On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 00:35, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> On Thu, 02 May 2002, Matt Sergeant wrote:
> > Craig R Hughes wrote:
> >> Yes, see bugzilla #18 which I merged into #130. This is the major
> >> piece of stuff I'd like to get done for 2.30 -- and I'm actually
> >> quite motivated to do the coding myself; I have a couple of other
> >> things I'm probably going to be working on, but might well have 130
> >> done by month end.
> > 
> > I'm thinking of doing this this week, so let me know if you want me to
> > hold off.
> > 
> > I've also got some mail parsing code you may be interested in rather
> > than using MIME-tools, or whatever the plan was. It's pretty sweet
> > code based on some stuff I wrote a couple of years ago now. I've been
> > running it over some large archives and it does pretty well. 
> 
> Cool. Does it correctly handle cases such as MIME digest messages
> containing nested multipart/related and multipart/alternative content?

Well we don't care if there's multiply nested stuff - because anything
deeper than the first level is just an attachment (though it does store
attachments, with their mime type, so you can parse them if you want
to).

> Also, will it handle a MIME part separator such as...
> 
> --terrorist-Marxist-counter-intelligence-security-PLO-arrangements

I see no reason it shouldn't.

> ...a separator that I know has caused some email parsing tools to fail
> and die in the past. Oh, and spaces in MIME breaks?

Hmm, I see no reason it shouldn't again, but I don't have an email like
that I can test it on.

We have a batch of oddly formatted messages here at work somewhere, I'll
try and get my hands on them.

Matt.


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