From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: base64 behavior is not MIME compliant Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 00:35:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120539739 31001 80.91.229.2 (5 Jul 2005 05:02:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 05:02:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bugs@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 05 07:02:18 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DpfZO-0004lu-Fe for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 07:02:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dpfad-0006cO-IP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 01:03:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DpfTO-0004CM-LM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 00:55:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DpfTF-00047G-Cu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 00:55:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DpfTD-0003wk-8u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 00:55:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DpfIA-0000qe-Gr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 00:44:18 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DpfA4-0004pf-Gh; Tue, 05 Jul 2005 00:35:56 -0400 Original-To: Marc Horowitz In-reply-to: (message from Marc Horowitz on Mon, 04 Jul 2005 00:59:53 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:40389 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:40389 I received a piece of email which passed through an older MTA. This MTA inserted a ! and a newline after every 1000 characters of a very long line of base64-encoded data, which used to be common behavior. When Gnus tried to display this email, it failed, because the ! characters were not recognized as valid base64 encoding. Maybe I misunderstood what you were asking for. I thought you were asking us to make additional base64-decode-region signal errors in cases where currently it does not. But now it looks like you are asking for it to accept input that now gives an error. Could you give a self-contained description of the change that you are requesting in the behavior of this function?