On Mon, 16 Dec 2024, Steffen Nurpmeso steffen-at-sdaoden.eu |s-nail| wrote:

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|1. I have a pipe-text/plain filter that searches the text of messages.
|The filter doesn't do what I want it to on base64 encoded messages, and
|I think it is because the messages are sent through the filter before
|being decoded. Is there a way to make the filter apply to the decoded
|form of the message?

You mean something like

 ? set pipe-text/plain='?* cat -vet'

This should only see decoded data.

Sorry, Steffen, my mistake. The problem was the dos style encoding of line endings that we corresponded about a couple of months ago. RFC 2045 says that line endings have to be set to \r\n before base64 encoding and I hadn't written the filter to cope with the extra \r's. I should just stick dos2unix on the front of the filter.

On Mon, 16 Dec 2024, Steffen Nurpmeso steffen-at-sdaoden.eu |s-nail| wrote:
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i really would like to know.
Simply leaving off markers, i mean, ok, but with multiple parts
you only get an impenetrable heap of text? ??

Yes, there can be times when you want the markers, but I don't think I get many messages where that would happen. Anyway, I was asking whether there is already a way to turn off the markers, and there isn't, so too bad, I'll live with it.

Thanks.

Stephen Isard

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