Re: [gmime-devel] Parsing of some broken multipart mime messages with gmime

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

On 08/30/2010 10:03 AM, Vsevolod Stakhov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've found a problem with parsing messages from some spammers. Thought
> their messages are parsed and displayed by popular E-Mail clients like
> TB or Outlook. The problem is that their content-type header is look
> like this:
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
>   boundary=----=_NextPart_000_0004_01C5OEWG.X25IPK30
>
> So gmime expects that boundary in message is ---- as '=' is special
> characters and must be enclosed in double quotes according to RFC.
> The problem is that decode_token function from gmime-param.c stops
> processing of value when it gets special character. So I'd like to ask
> is there any safe way to patch this code to "eat" some of special
> characters in detecting boundaries?
>
> Here is an example of message where gmime find no parts.
>   
>

This should now be fixed in git.

Jeff