If you never thought you'd see the day Joseph ASKS how to use procmail
rather than ANSWERING, today is the day. ;) I have no clue how to do
this easily..
The problem:
If you are an AOL user (WHY are you an AOL user!?) and you set your
wonderful point-and-drool email client to not send out HTML mail, it still
sends multipart/alternative email with the first attachment being:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Now, this attachment is readable. However, mutt chooses the latter one,
which says:
Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
No problem, all modern mail clients support that. Except AOL lies, of
course. It's text/plain, and it's Q-P, but it's absolutely not us-ascii
by any stretch of the imagination. It's windows-1251, which means my
messages are filled with ?????? and whatnot anywhere there's an 8-bit
character.
Now, I can trivially identify the AOL client through its msgid, or through
its X-Mailer being a retarded string like "8.0 for Windows", but I have no
idea how to do the two-line match to determine that one of the parts is a
mislabelled Q-P part with windows-1252 charset. I've managed to determine
that AOL's software sends a proper charset for anything BUT windows-1252,
which makes this just really annoying.
So the question is, how do I match on the condition of that two-line
breakage and, having done so, how do I fix the broken charset before
writing the message to the destination folder?
--
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act,
but a habit."
-- Aristotle
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