mime.c

Gyepi SAM gyepi at praxis-sw.com
Tue Jan 7 04:06:48 CET 2003


On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 03:22:23AM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> writes:
> > Well, I think there should be a warning when bogofilter encounters an
> > unknown mime specification.  It's O.K. by me to use a simple message
> > like "unknown mime encoding", rather than a message that quotes part of
> > the mail contents.
> 
> I respectfully disagree. "b0rken MIME" is perfectly expected input for
> bogofilter indeed -- we want to tag that junk, not complain about
> it. Apart from the bogosity and possibly stats output, the bogofilter
> output should always be the same, regardless of what input
> arrives. Fatal exceptions being the other exception ;-)

I agree with Matthias here.

Note that rfc2045 says that implementations should ignore unknown mime types.

-Gyepi




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