On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * Decode BASE64 or quoted-printable to 7-bit clean plain text This should be decode to 8-bit clean plain text. > * Replace any common Unicode characters with ASCII equivilents > * Replace unhandled non-ASCII characters with an ASCII text representation These could be merged into: * Replace non-ASCII characters with an ASCII text representation But you'll want some default ASCII replacement character such as space, so you don't have to try to represent everything in the Unicode charset with ASCII art. Insert this next: * Strip all remaining MIME parts that are not text/*. > * When a plain text body alternative is provided, strip any other body > alternatives > * Render HTML to plain text, when only an HTML body is provided Without actually bothering to check, I think the MIME RFCs also specify text/rtf as a valid content type. It's rarely seen on the tubes, so perhaps you want to ignore it for v1. > * Strip any remaining MIME headers You probably want the mail to remain a valid MIME message, just in case the user ever upgrades her MUA. So keep: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Apologies for any errors - it's been nearly a decade since anyone paid me to do mail. -- Roger _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
