Tobias Polzin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>I don't like BASE64/Quoted-Printable Encoded Mails, because they
>are difficult to Quote and Search with exmh/glimple.
>If I use "/usr/lib/python/mimefy.py -b -d | /usr/mh/lib/slocal"
>some 8bit Parts of Mails got garbled by slocal. It seems to me,
>everything in a line following a "zero char" (including the
>trailing newline) is removed.

Why am I not surprised.

>I don't know, whether it is allowed to have zero chars in 8bit 
>components of mails, anyway it should not be too difficult to
>tell slocal leave everything in the mail as it is.

"slocal" is only one of a zillion programs that cannot properly
handle embedded '\0' characters.

This is, at least in part, due to the unfortunate "design" of
fgets().

 -NWR


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