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Re: Apple Mail and MIME attachment problems

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From: newsspam5REMOVETHIS
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 22:08
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Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.uu.nl> writes:
>>>>>> Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> (TX) wrote:
>
>>TX> With respect to the MIME decoding, from memory (often prone to error!)
>>TX> when I installed VM from the sources, it came with some C utilities
>>TX> for doing based64 and quoted printable decoding. 
>
> Yes, I use these for base64 and quoted-printable en/decoding. I wouldn't
> call them MIME decoding, therefore I didn't understand the question. I have
> no problems with these so I see no reason to use the Perl stuff. Moreover I
> don't think they have any influence on the interpretation of the MIME
> structure. 

Exactly, they are only used for decoding, but the parsing of the
MIME structure is done in elisp.  IMHO those binaries that come
with VM are faster than a perl script in startup and runtime, but
I did not test it.

Robert.
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Subject: Re: Apple Mail and MIME attachment problems
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