[mel-base-devel] mel.mime:parts not working properly for rfc 2822 (reading from a file)

[Jochen Schmidt]

Am 28.01.2010 um 17:32 schrieb Fred Gibson:

> How about a function such as "(defun skip-rfc2822-header-part (stream
> part) ..." which would read the stream just past the desired header?
> 
> I can take a pass at this if it would help.

I don't think so. It would be fixing symptoms. I think the right thing to do would be scanning for the boundary in question and then calling just skrip-rfc2822-headers on the stream.

Given some part P with boundary B
1) Locate the message object by following the parent chain
2) Get a message-body-stream
3) scan the stream for the boundary B
4) If boundary is found => return stream as part-stream

If you want a part-body-stream just get a part-stream and do skip-rfc2822-headers.

ciao,
Jochen

> 
> My best,
> 
> Fred
> 
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:05 AM, Jochen Schmidt <js at crispylogics.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Am 28.01.2010 um 16:56 schrieb Fred Gibson:
>> 
>>> Hi Jochen,
>>> 
>>> On further looking at the problem, the scan and multipart-read seem to
>>> work exactly as designed no matter the message complexity - very nice.
>>> The reason I'm getting strange results is when using
>>> part-body-string, there seems to be a problem with not skipping enough
>>> headers with increased message complexity, thereby giving a bad read
>>> on a correctly parsed part.  I'm working on troubleshooting this now.
>> 
>> I've also looked into this. Scanning and creating body structures is not the problem.
>> Actually part-body-string does only work for quite simple multipart messages. I had an idea though how to simplify part lookup and at the same time support komplex multipart messages:
>> 
>> AFAIR the body structure stores the boundary of the part. So it should be possible to scan the message for the beginning boundary tag of the given part - completely ignoring any hierarchy. I'll try that as soon as my time permits.
>> 
>> ciao,
>> Jochen
>> 
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