From: Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com>
Subject: p0.88 misparses 2nd-level message forwarding
Date: 22 Jun 1999 17:14:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vxk674gj5tz.fsf@beaver.jprc.com> (raw)
1. Send yourself a test message -- normal message, text/plain.
2. Forward that message to yourself -- an inline message/rfc822.
3. Forward *that* message to yourself.
You now have an inline message/rfc822 containing another inline
message/rfc822.
p0.88's display of this will be...confused.
Assuming that you prefix each forwarding with a bit of text/plain as
well, you will see:
[1. text/plain]
containing the "outermost" (3rd level) new text.
[2. message/rfc822]
containing nothing but (in my case) an X-Sent: header (which BTW
erroneously duplicates the topmost X-Sent; I sent a bug report
about this last week).
[3. text/plain]
containing the 2nd level text which prefaced the original message
on 1st forwarding... *followed by* the entire remaining message
displayed as text/plain, including both the 2nd level and 1st
level messages... all as part of a single "3." section.
[4. message/rfc822]
containing the original, 1st level forwarded message.
Note that the innermost, original text is duplicated in both the
3. and 4. sections.
Perhaps significantly, the buttonized (`K b') display of these
sections will show the button areas as
[1. text/plain] in *bold*
[2. message/rfc822] in *bold*
[3. text/plain] in /italic/
[4. message/rfc822] in *bold*
Shouldn't these be labelled something hierarchical anyway, such as 1.,
2., 2.1, 2.2, 2.2.1?
Something Truly Evil happened to MIME interpretation recently...
--karl
next reply other threads:[~1999-06-22 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-06-22 21:14 Karl Kleinpaste [this message]
1999-06-23 1:10 ` Shenghuo ZHU
1999-06-23 1:28 ` Karl Kleinpaste
1999-06-28 17:32 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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