Comment 20 for bug 505078

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote : Re: [Bug 505078] Re: copy and paste or newline mangling can damage streams

On 16 June 2010 11:12, Robert Collins <email address hidden> wrote:
> Its important that we capture the new facilities the multipart encoding added:
>  - content type
>  - attachment name (perhaps generalised to content disposition this time around)
>  - multiple attachments
>  - binary safe
>
> I have no attachment to any particular escaping mechanism used, but the
> quopri proposal you've supplied here seems to be lacking three of the
> four things I've listed here, while delivering the fourth very nicely :)
>
> Something combining the two would be most excellent.

Actually it did (in the branch) have the content-type, but needs 2 and 3.

Maybe there is a more mime-y way to give the attachment name.

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Martin