On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 03:54:29PM -0500, Ed Blackman wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 08:26:03PM +0000, Chris G wrote:
> >On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 01:49:33PM -0500, Ed Blackman wrote:
> >>You can tell Mutt to use RFC2047 decoding on MIME file names with
> >>  set rfc2047_parameters=yes
> >>
> >Would that be in addition to the 'normal' decoding which works with most
> >attachments?  I.e. would everything that worked before continue to work
> >correctly?
> 
> Yes.  The only thing that might break (and I'm not even sure it
> would) is if someone sent you a file actually named something like
> "=?blah?Q?foo?".  In other words, a legitimate file name that
> *looks* like it's RFC2047 encoded, but actually isn't.
> 
> In practice, most people don't send files with weird names like
> that, and there's a large set of people who use non-compliant user
> agents that send files with RFC2047 encoded names.
> 
OK, thanks for all the information.

-- 
Chris Green

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