Re: MIME footer patch, was: mlmmj-1.2.9-RC2 and scooping up patches

[Mads Martin Joergensen <mmj@mmj.dk>]

* Jakob Hirsch <jh@plonk.de> [Dec 10. 2005 04:51]:
> >   http://mlmmj.mmj.dk/files/mlmmj-1.2.9-RC2.tar.bz2
> 
> nice!

Last chance for 1.2.9 final patches.

> And I finally reworked the infamous MIME footer patch. The behaviour is
> now controlled by a new control (footer_mime).
> 
> There are some major changes in the vodoo file:
> - rebuild the while loop that works through the headers
> - removed the strlen(hdrline)=1 check. gethdrline() never returns more
> than one LF and it's always the rightmost character.
> - removed the special handling of headers starting with "mime" (usually
> only the "MIME-Version" header). What was the purpose of it? AFAIK it's
> a header like every else.
> - the result of every writen() is checked now
> 
> The changes are really big, but the code is much clearer now and fairly
> straightforward. As always, comments welcome.

It's nice and fine, but too big to go in 1.2.9 at this point. 1.2.10-RC1
will have it.

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Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk
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