[Spambayes] defaults vs. chi-square

[Barry A. Warsaw]

    >> ...  It appears to be a systematic error when a mailing list
    >> manager appends plain text to what should be a base64 encoded
    >> segment.  Bad MLM, no biscuit.  This confuses the MIME
    >> decoder. Bad MIME decoder, too!

Known problem with MM2.0.  MM2.1 does a better job of adding headers and
footers.  If it can't do it in a MIME-safe way, it won't do it.

    TP> So, Barry, what can we do about this?  Filling the database
    TP> with "skip" tokens from raw base64 is a Bad Idea, and I assume
    TP> the email pkg doesn't know how to, e.g., "decode base64 up
    TP> until it can't anymore, and then grab the rest as plain text".
    TP> Heh -- just writing that made me want to puke.  We have to do
    TP> something better with this, though.

Upgrade to MM2.1 :)

Seriously, when the email package has to decode a base64 payload, it
just hands the whole string off to base64.decodestring().  Given that
that function isn't very forgiving, I'm not sure what to do.  Sucks.

-Barry