[RFA] Fix "show convenience" test
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
Thu Sep 17 19:25:00 GMT 2009
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On Thursday 17 September 2009 18:57:31, Paul Pluzhnikov wrote:
> > <quote>
> >
> > *sigh*
> >
> > How old is base64 now, has it hit 15 years yet? "text based mail reader"
> > my left foot, there's nothing to prevent a text based mail reader from
> > decoding mail in a 15 year old standard.
> >
> > I can accept the argument that a pure text, 7bit ascii message of a
> > text subtype shouldn't be encoded automatically. I'm even suprised
> > that its base64 encoded and not qp-encoded if there happened to be
> > line-ending/wrapping concerns.
> >
>
> I hope that means that they'll address it. :-) This also prevents
> mail archives from showing the patch inline. Compare:
It's a bug in the mail archiving software if it decides that based on
Content-Transfer-Encoding rather than Content-Disposition.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
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