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Re: [Nmh-workers] RFC 2047 vs RFC 2231 encoding for MIME parameters


From: David Levine
Subject: Re: [Nmh-workers] RFC 2047 vs RFC 2231 encoding for MIME parameters
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2016 15:16:15 -0400

I wrote:

> Ken wrote:
>
> > The exact issue is that some MUAs will use RFC 2047 encoding
> > for a filename that contains 8-bit characters when creating a
> > Content-Disposition field.
>
> > I am torn as to what to do here.  It feels somehow wrong to support this
> > for decode natively, but I'm not completely convinced of that.  We have
> > a number of email programs that get this wrong, including a very popular
> > one.  This might be something perfect for mhfixmsg to deal with.
>
> Sounds like a job for mhfixmsg, I'll look into it for 1.7.

Done.

David



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