Re: mime

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Fam...@t-... (Felix Schlesinger) writes:

> Hello
>
> I have written another small test-patch. It does encryption (and
> encryption+signature) for MIME-Messages, following the Standard of rfc
> 2015. 

RFC 2015 is obsoleted by RFC 3156.

> I would like some feedback, and code review, before I finish this up
> and move on to clear-text signatures. It would also be very helpful
> if you could test whether the messages produced by this are readable
> in different other MUAs, that suppprt Mime and encryption.

I have not tested it, but some immediate comments:

+ The code does not handle non-trivial MIME bodies.  (E.g., small
  message body + attachment.)  To support this, a mail composer mode
  that supports MIME better is needed.  Message from Gnus contains
  this, but it also implements RFC 3156 so if you use it you don't
  need to write code. :-) Perhaps VM's message mode support MIME as
  well, I'm not familiar with VM.

+ I'm not sure if the code generates RFC 3156 compliant output in all
  cases, see section 3 of the RFC for details.  It says that data must
  be 7bit for instance.

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