On September 25, 2003 at 11:30, Bennett Todd wrote: > There's a third method, which I think is rather better than either > of those. > > You can re-code everything into a canonical form. Some email client > drop some punctuation characters in filenames? Delete all such > characters from filenames. Different tools handle various i18n > encoded filenames differently? Map to US-ASCII. Enforce length > limits. Recode base64. Recode uuencoded chunks. Regularize > non-standard MIME. You cannot do this for signed messages, therefore, you still need to either decode in all possible ways or drop the message (or the offending entity). --ewh
