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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> I don't think it's worth it.  Ignoring all errors when base64-decoding
> is OK.

Personally think that these error mechanisms are highly underused in
Emacs, which might be due to fact that FSF does not have these
convenience functions. This what the reason I made it is a patch. Then 
you wouldn't have to do any work. 
This is not the first time that bugs were hard
to find  because of the

(condition-case ()
  ;;
  (error nil))

idiom. Could you at the very least print the error message so that you just
have converted it in a non-fatal error. FWIW It might be very
interesting to know that a base64 encoded part was malformed.

Jan