Steven Winikoff wrote: > I owe you an apology about this, and I'm sincerely sorry for wasting your > time on this question.
No apology is necessary. This uncovered an issue with mhfixmsg that we fixed. > The key is the message about the line length being too long. Seeing that > reminded me that I'd modified the stock 1.7.1 mhfixmsg with this patch: -decodetext binary instead of 8bit would be safer, I expect. It sounds like you might have tried that in the past without success. It might help to dig in to that. > There's still something going on that I don't understand, however. The > way I've evaluated the output from mhfixmsg was by viewing it in vim, and > there's no question that the unpatched output looks fine while the patched > output is as I've been describing since the beginning of this thread. > > ...but when I look at the files with command-line tools such as more or > head, *both* versions look correct. But are they correct? It sounds like not, based on viewing in text editors. > In summary, I now know what's happening and (mostly) what to do about it, > but I still don't know why. I would look at output from mime_helper and see if it's UTF-8. David
