[Gerd Moellmann] Re: [Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>] Re: Large *.pif base64 attachments and Gnus...

[Gerd Moellmann] Re: [Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>] Re: Large *.pif base64 attachments and Gnus...

[Pavel Janík]

Hi,

Gerd Moellmann just wrote me this. Can you please change it for Emacs 21
and in CVS?

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| Subject: Re: [Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>] Re: Large *.pif base64 attachments and Gnus...
| From: Gerd Moellmann
| Date: 06 Aug 2001 12:01:44 +0200
| 
| Pavel@Janik.cz (Pavel Janík) writes:
| 
| > I personally do not think that this is bug in this function (because the
| > base64 code used is really Invalid), but rather in Gnus who calls it and do
| > not check properly for an error and eventually save the original base64
| > coded text instead of warning user that the base64 is bad (but also note,
| > that there *IS* a warning in *Messages* saying that it is Invalid base64
| > data). 
| 
| I think the reason for saving this undecoded is that
| base64-decode-region signals an error, but in mm-bodies.el it's called
| inside a condition-case and the error is ``converted'' into a message,
| and then probably ignored.  Could you please tell the Gnus developers?
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-- 
Pavel Janík

panic ("No CPUs found.  System halted.\n");
                  -- 2.4.3 arch/parisc/kernel/setup.c

Re: [Gerd Moellmann] Re: [Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>] Re: Large *.pif base64 attachments and Gnus...

[Florian Weimer]

Pavel@Janik.cz (Pavel Janík) writes:

> | I think the reason for saving this undecoded is that
> | base64-decode-region signals an error, but in mm-bodies.el it's called
> | inside a condition-case and the error is ``converted'' into a message,
> | and then probably ignored.  Could you please tell the Gnus developers?

Since I'm mentioned in the subject line, I somehow feel I should
comment: I don't have access to Emacs 21, so I can't check that a
change is right.