[dev] MIME Questions/Better Reply handling

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Edwin Culp <eculp@encontacto.net>:


| If I get a doc attachment, as of today, wvHtml is not able to open it.
| I can now save it to disk.  Then I can use wvHtml/openoffice/xwp etc
| with no problem.  Don't understand why wvHtml can't open it inline.
| 

Check to make sure that your path to wvHtml is correct in 
mime_drivers.php.  When I went to check this error out, I had the same 
problem (even though, in the past, I had correctly set wvHtml up 
correctly.  I must have accidentally updated this file incorrectly).  
additionally, i have added error reporting to all MIME_Viewer modules that 
use outside programs if the program doesn't exist.  This should help in 
debugging.

| The really cool part is that I see no message body now only the
| attachment,
| but when I do a reply I now see the original message that now shows up
| as:
| 
| | 
| | ------=_NextPart_001_000E_01C1F5AE.E3876360
| | Content-Type: text/plain;
| | 	charset="Windows-1252"
| | Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
| 

When replying it actually uses the text found in the first MIME part.  If 
that part is a multipart message, like your two examples, it will return 
the text of the entire Part.  That is why you are seeing all the MIME 
boundary/Content-Type/etc stuff.  Maybe we should check to see if there is 
a text/plain attachment and use that as the reply text.

In general, I think the code for determining the reply text could be a lot, 
well, cooler for lack of a better term.  I personally think the text 
wrapping can look a lot better; an example of what i would like to see can 
be found at:

http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/readme/fillpara.html

Additionally, as has been pointed out to me, replying to non-text bodies 
can lead to varied results.  In so many words I guess I am saying that I 
will try to hack at this code and see if I can come up with anything 
better.  If anybody wants to see anything specific or, better yet, even 
submit some code :), speak now or forever hold your peace.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz@bigworm.colorado.edu]
The University of Colorado at Boulder