On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>> But do you really think that
>> should be the only resort when badly formed mail arrives? I'd prefer to
>> see what was intended by the sender.
>
> Yes, I do :-( QP and Base64 (and MIME in general) have been around for
> nearly two decades now. If the sender can't get it right, too bad. And
> really, the only time I see that sort of cruft is from spamming software.
And it can be a security issue. The, "be liberal in what you accept,"
mantra is dangerous from a security perspective.
I have no problems with mhshow throwing an error. It is simple
to then show the message w/o MIME processing. I have a bash function
that I use in cases when I need to see a message without any MIME
processing, but with basic mhl processing so I do not have
see all the raw headers:
sh.m() {
show -noshowproc $* | mhl
}
--ewh
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