Re: [Nmh-workers] Mailing list archives busticated

[Ken Hornstein]

>Nice of you to take the blame, but the real blame is the brain dead
>parsing code in mhonarc, which appears I never really tested.  Why the
>problem was never discovered before is beyond me (likely since attribute
>parts are rarely used in the wild).

I don't look at the headers of every message I get, but I did check my
mailbox for examples when I was writing the RFC 2231 parser.  I have
never seen an extended MIME parameter on a Content-Type header "in the
wild", but I do see them all of the time on Content-Disposition headers
(when the filenames get really long).  So if you're not parsing the
Content-Disposition header, it doesn't surprise me that you'd never
encounter them; when you think about it, there really aren't that many
MIME parameters out there in common use.

>I've updated the archiving software on mhonarc.org that contains a fix
>to the problem, so the nmh-workers (HTML) archive there should be
>updating again: <http://www.mhonarc.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/>.

Thanks!

--Ken