Hi Peter! There is a module called 'mimetools' which is part of standard python distribution. It's capable of parsing multipart messages and decode encoded headers and text parts. I don't know if it's already in use by Mailman. If not, it been there for a while waiting to be utilized. ;-)

Tomas

-----Original Message----- From: Peter Gervai <grin@tolna.net> To: MailMan Dev List <mailman-developers@python.org> Date: den 13 november 1998 23:31 Subject: [Mailman-Developers] mime decoded mail in the archieves?

The new beta is fantastic, I mean, hey, it works even for me! :-))

Archieving is pretty, but I realized that it does not handle the MIME-encoded accented letters at all (or, at least, not when converting them from the old archives). Since half of the users is not able to use a decent mail software they don't use iso8859-2 but mime-encodeded iso8859-1:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Text looks like: "jelen=E9s=E9nek feladatait szervezi, ir=E1ny=EDtja"

I - in my infinite lameness - suspect that writing a mime decoder wouldn't be impossible. Could it be _simply_ done? It could be one step closer to i18n but I don't know how much demand is there for that.... (Probably national language archives should face the same problem?)

cya, grin

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