Several people from whom I receive e-mail regularly use a MUA which 
generates Content-Type: headers of the form
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed

The symptoms I see are that I don't get any preview text, and Sup shows
the message as consisting only of a spurious attachment of the form: 
> - Attachment: sup-attachment-1252774311-2202. (8 lines) 
(Note no file-type suffix.)

RFC 2045 (the MIME specification) section 5.1 says in part
> The type, subtype, and parameter names are not case sensitive.  For
> example, TEXT, Text, and TeXt are all equivalent top-level media
> types.
So the above should be handled just like the many mails with headers of
the form
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
I get, which Sup handles perfectly.

I theorize that RubyMail is being case-sensitive where it shouldn't.

Given the number of work-arounds Sup has had to implement to compensate
for RubyMail's stupidity, and that RubyMail is currently unmaintained,
has any thought been given to switching Sup to eg. TMail 
(http://tmail.rubyforge.org), which is maintained?

Failing that, thoughts on how best to work around this problem in Sup?

- Kevin
-- 
Kevin Riggle (kev...@free-dissociation.com) 
http://free-dissociation.com
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