[Alpine-info] Displaying Message/RFC822 attachments fails with IMAP

[Matt Ackeret]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Heikki Vesalainen / Ixonos wrote:

>Mark Crispin said:  [my made up attribution line]

>> A reasonable server implementation will send the encoding as "8BIT" if the

>> encapsulated message has any octets with values 0x80 or higher, and "7BIT"

>> otherwise.

>

> Yes, and a reasonable client would tolerate "unreasonable" servers, since they

> are abundant. From where I'm looking, it seems to be your stance that an IMAP


Disclaimer: I don't know ANYTHING about this IMAP/MIME stuff.

Your workaround seems reasonable to me.  Maybe print something like

[ Message had invalid encoding. Assuming 8BIT.  See Setup/Config/Encoding ]

and then do the rest as if it were 8BIT..  or scan the message to see if 
you can figure out if it needs 8BIT or 7BIT.. If not, have a manual override
(that I refer to as Setup/Config/Encoding) for the user to pick a default 
one for broken messages.  If they pick wrong, the message could be all
garbled or worse.  The default would be to do as now, not print the message
section.