[imp] Re: IMP problem

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz@bigworm.colorado.edu>:

> Quoting Eric Rostetter <eric.rostetter@physics.utexas.edu>:
> 
> | 1) Document that IMP will fail when given bad MIME messages
> 
> Technically speaking, this is not a bad MIME message.  It's just a badly 
> formed MIME message for the sake of PGP encrypted messages.  It's malformed 
> because it gives the MUA no information linking the two parts 
> ('multipart/mixed' parts are completely independent of each other by RFC 
> rule).

Okay, I understand now :)

> | 2) Try to make IMP fail somehow more gracefully when given bad MIME
> | messages.
> 
> Once again - IMP rendered the message just fine; it's just that it was 
> processing the signature with no data and didn't know the PGP signature 
> went with the data.

It didn't render it just fine for me -- I just got a blank frame with nothing
in it.  

> This may be the problem, by the way (I'm not sure why it would defang a 
> multipart/encrypted message though):
> 
> | X-Security: MIME headers sanitized on pcgxmt1
> |         See http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~help/e-mail/security.html
> |         for details. $Revision: 1.129 $Date: 2001-04-14 20:20:43-07

Okay, I'll check into that to see if my defanging corrupted anything.

> Because I sincerely hope the new Mozilla...
> 
> | User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.0)
> |  Gecko/20020530
> 
> ...does not send out bad PGP messages.

Wouldn't surprise me if it did/could.
 
> michael
> 
> ______________________________________________
> Michael Slusarz [slusarz@bigworm.colorado.edu]
> The University of Colorado at Boulder


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