The nmh Mail Handling System - Bugs: bug #36056, nmh lets binary through to terminal

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bug #36056: nmh lets binary through to terminal

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Fri 04 Nov 2016 07:46:49 PM UTC, comment #3: We can't use this patch as-is; sending "binary" to the terminal is completely valid if you have a UTF-8 locale. And changes to the relevant mail standards have made it that bare UTF-8 in headers legal as well (look up the message/global MIME type). What needs to happen is we need to recognize UTF-8 in headers and don't output those characters if they aren't compatible with the user's locale.	Ken Hornstein <kenh>
Fri 04 Nov 2016 03:45:07 AM UTC, comment #2: Wow, is nmh still piping arbitrary binary through to the user's terminal? Could somebody please at least put in the change to use mh_fputs? Thanks.	Andrew Valencia <vandys>
Mon 16 Apr 2012 03:17:12 PM UTC, comment #1: So that's interesting ... the message was in UTF-8, but didn't have any MIME tagging. That's mega-bogus (but hey, it's spam, not surprising). Let me put this to the mailing list.	Ken Hornstein <kenh>
Sat 31 Mar 2012 06:50:44 PM UTC, original submission: Got a spam with binary contents in the Subject: line. Was amazed that nmh piped it right through onto my display. Messed up my display but didn't do any real harm, but this can NOT be a "good thing". Local fix here was to change scan() so it used mh_fputs() instead of plain fputs(), and then added a test in mh_fputs() for (ctype.h) isprint(c) \|\| isspace(c).	Anonymous

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