From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-10-15T08:22:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there a standard pattern for threaded access to a file?

On Oct 14, 2007, at 11:35 AM, Jay Levitt wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:26:58 +0900, James Edward Gray II wrote:
>
>>> Since I bear some responsibility for its evil popularity, I'll
>>> volunteer to update that gateway code to extract the text-part out
>>> of the multipart if you can send it to me...
>>
>> http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/hacking_the_gateway
>>
>> http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/mail_to_newsrb
>>
>> http://blog.grayproductions.net/articles/news_to_mailrb
>>
>> I have a rewrite in progress that uses TMail for message handling.
>> On of my goals for this was to correctly separate the text portions
>> of multipart/alternative.  I've just been distracted with work
>> deadlines and other short term projects, so I haven't completed it  
>> yet.
>
> Sounds like it'd be more useful for me to help on the TMail version  
> (since that's what I'd end up using anyway).. is that code posted  
> anywhere yet, or would you be willing to send/post it?

It's not yet online.  I am happy to put it up, sure.  I really need  
to get through two projects before I get to that though.  Please give  
me a few weeks.

> It's not in the Gateway topic, and your search box is, uh, broken.

It seems to work OK for me.  Feel free to email me the details off- 
list and I'll sure try to fix it.

>> I've seen some pretty crazy things in messages sent to Ruby Talk.
>> One of those is multipart/alternative with no text/plain component.
>> I don't think there's too much loss in not supporting such setups
>> though.
>
> Yeah, that's just totally broken.  I mean, it's technically legal  
> MIME, but pointless.

We see quite a few broken posts pass through the gateway in quite a  
few different ways.  Welcome to the Internet.  ;)

James Edward Gray II