[pmmail-list] Fwd: [VOICENWS] SW: PMMIncoming Script Version 2.02 released

[L.Willms]

This will be of interest to PMMail users, especially those using OS/2

The forwarded mail describes a script providing a band aid for PMMail's 
inability to deal with character set encodings introduced in the past 
years like ISO-8851-15 or UTF-8


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> Delivery-date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 15:28:38 +0100
> Message-ID: <43AC072B.1010803@ptdprolog.net>
> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 09:18:19 -0500
> To:  news@os2voice.org
> Subject: [VOICENWS] SW: PMMIncoming Script Version 2.02 released

++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service   http://www.os2voice.org ++

From: axel.hagedornDESPAM@DESPAMgmx.de

I've updated my PMMail/2 helper script to version 2.02 (and renamed it 
to a more PMMail/2-dedicated Name: PMMIncoming.cmd). This REXX  script 
manipulates malformed emails so that they will be correctly handled by 
PMMail/2. Version 2.02 is almost a complete rewrite and has many 
improvements.

The following main problems are being addressed by this script:

* Subject, From, To, Cc and Reply-To are transformed to ISO-8859-1 if 
one of the following problems occour:
  o headerline is encoded in UTF-8 (idicated)
  o headerline is encoded in ISO-8859-15 (idicated)
  o headerline has no indicated encoding but is UTF-8
  o headerline has no indicated encoding but is ISO-8859-15
(this all would otherwise lead to false Subjects, Froms, etc. if 
German Umlauts, etc are used)
* Body encoding is changed to ISO-8859-1 if Content-Type indicates 
ISO-8859-15 (this would otherwise lead to a false Body if German 
Umlauts, etc. are used)
* Mime-Version, Content-Type and Content-Transfer-Encoding are added 
to the header if not present (this would otherwise lead to a false 
Body if German Umlauts, etc. are used, cause in most cases these mails 
use ISO-8859-1 encoding - which has to be indicated for PMMail/2 to be 
recognized)
* ISO encoded mails that are falsely set to a 7bit tranfer encoding 
are set to 8bit (this would otherwise lead to a false body)
* Date is adjusted by adding the time difference between used timezone 
and GMT if PST (PDT) or EST (EDT) is used and no time difference is 
idicated. (this would otherwise lead to a misinterpretation of the 
message's timestamp)
* Sub-Header in some Multipart mails are checked as well if they 
contain text and have incomplete headerinformation (this would 
otherwise again lead to false Body if German Umlauts, etc. are used)

Get the script from here: http://www.infinity-2.de

(The webpage is available in German and English now.)

BTW: I've released an update to the Mozilla-Integration of PMMail/2 
too. (The original approach doesn't work with newer Mozillas anymore.)

Best regards and season's greetings

Axel

PS: Let's all hope this script won't be necessary anymore in the near 
future, when PMMail/2 will hopefully be mainained by VOICE!

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Lüko Willms
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