Subject: Re: admin/17736: GNATS should do something against MIME messages
To: None <kent@netbsd.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/28/2002 18:41:53
[ On Saturday, July 27, 2002 at 18:28:01 (-0700), kent@netbsd.org wrote: ]
> Subject: admin/17736: GNATS should do something against MIME messages
>
> PR kern/17604 has many garbage.  I guess it was caused by MIME
> multipart message.
> GNATS should do:
>   - Decode a MIME body with Content-Transfer-Encoding such as quoted-printable, base64.
>   - Throw away non-"text/plain" parts.

No, absolutely not.  If a reader wishes to decode them then they can be
fed into an appropriate MIME decoder.  Nothing should ever be thrown
away from a PR or followup.

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