General discussion of the Mew MIME mail reader for Emacs/XEmacs

David A. Panariti | 1 Apr 2003 10:47

[mew-int 01367] Re: Unknown CTE: 7bit

>>>>> "Kazu" == Kazu Yamamoto <(山本和彦) <kazu <at> iijlab.net>> writes:
   From> "David A. Panariti" <davep.mew <at> meduseld.net>
   Subject> [mew-int 01333] Re: Unknown CTE: 7bit

   >> Here is a spam which results in the Unknown CTE: 7bit error.

   Kazu> I got no error from this mail. I wonder if you failed to install Mew
   Kazu> 4 correctly.
Is there anything I can do to determine if something is wrong?
All I do when I build is patch the makefile to match my Xemacs installation. 

BTW: did you test w/emacs or Xemacs?

   Kazu> Note that if you are using anon cvs, you HAVE TO type "make clean"
   Kazu> to remove all .elc files before you type "make". Take care.
I used the 4.0.15 release tarball:
-rw-r--r--  1 davep  wheel  841287 Mar 20 03:19 mew-4.0.51.tar.gz

I can `bounce/remail' the mail to you and we can see if that works, in that
it breaks with the CTE error.

What did you do with the email I sent you?
How did you `import' it so that you could attempt to forward it?
I can try the same procedure and see if that somehow magically fixed the
problem.  Perhaps I did not save it correctly.

thanks,

davep

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Kazu Yamamoto | 1 Apr 2003 10:52

[mew-int 01368] Re: Unknown CTE: 7bit

From: "David A. Panariti" <davep.mew <at> meduseld.net>
Subject: [mew-int 01367] Re: Unknown CTE: 7bit

> Is there anything I can do to determine if something is wrong?
> All I do when I build is patch the makefile to match my Xemacs installation. 

(setq mew-debug t) and try to cause the error. Please send me a
content of *Mew debug* buffer.

See the page below for more information.
	http://www.mew.org/bugreport/index.html.en

> BTW: did you test w/emacs or Xemacs?

Yes. I tried it on every Emacsen I have, including XEmacs 21.4.9.

> How did you `import' it so that you could attempt to forward it?

mv spam.txt ~/Mail/inbox/100

Again, "7bit" is correct CTE: and Mew certainly knows it. And I found
NO "7bit" CTE: in the mail which you forwarded.

--Kazu

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Tatsuya Kinoshita | 3 Apr 2003 12:49

[mew-int 01375] Re: Unknown CTE: 7bit

On April 1, 2003, [mew-int 01368],
Kazu Yamamoto <kazu <at> iijlab.net> wrote:

> I tried it on every Emacsen I have, including XEmacs 21.4.9.

This problem is reproducible when mew-use-8bit is nil.  `f'
(mew-summary-forward) and `C-c RET' (mew-draft-make-message)
failed on my Emacs 20.7/21.2 also.

--

-- 
Tatsuya Kinoshita

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Kazu Yamamoto | 4 Apr 2003 11:04

[mew-int 01379] Re: Unknown CTE: 7bit

From: Tatsuya Kinoshita <tats <at> vega.ocn.ne.jp>
Subject: [mew-int 01375] Re: Unknown CTE: 7bit

> This problem is reproducible when mew-use-8bit is nil.  `f'
> (mew-summary-forward) and `C-c RET' (mew-draft-make-message)
> failed on my Emacs 20.7/21.2 also.

Thanks.

This is completely my fault. I misunderstood that Dave is talking
about decoding.

For encoding, yes, this error can occur. I put a code of workaround to
anon cvs, though only a broken MIME message can be produced if this
kind broken MIME message should be included.

--Kazu

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David A. Panariti | 5 Apr 2003 06:50

[mew-int 01381] Re: Unknown CTE: 7bit

>>>>> "Kazu" == Kazu Yamamoto <(山本和彦) <kazu <at> iijlab.net>> writes:
   From> Tatsuya Kinoshita <tats <at> vega.ocn.ne.jp>
   Subject> [mew-int 01375] Re: Unknown CTE: 7bit

   >> This problem is reproducible when mew-use-8bit is nil.  `f'
   >> (mew-summary-forward) and `C-c RET' (mew-draft-make-message)
   >> failed on my Emacs 20.7/21.2 also.

   Kazu> Thanks.

   Kazu> This is completely my fault. I misunderstood that Dave is talking
   Kazu> about decoding.

   Kazu> For encoding, yes, this error can occur. I put a code of workaround to
   Kazu> anon cvs, though only a broken MIME message can be produced if this
   Kazu> kind broken MIME message should be included.
Thanks!  I just checked out and built the current cvs code.
It fixes the problem.
I don't think spammers spend too much time worrying about making well-formed
MIME ;->
Now I can forward these spams to uce <at> ftc.gov, for whatever that is worth.

thanks again.

davep

--
Never trust software you have to pay for.
                                 -- dp

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David A. Panariti | 3 Apr 2003 00:39

[mew-int 01373] Re: Unknown CTE: 7bit

>>>>> "Kazu" == Kazu Yamamoto <(山本和彦) <kazu <at> iijlab.net>> writes:
   From> "David A. Panariti" <davep.mew <at> meduseld.net>
   Subject> [mew-int 01367] Re: Unknown CTE: 7bit

   >> Is there anything I can do to determine if something is wrong?  All I
   >> do when I build is patch the makefile to match my Xemacs installation.

   Kazu> (setq mew-debug t) and try to cause the error. Please send me a
   Kazu> content of *Mew debug* buffer.
I needed to exit and restart mew in order to see the creation of *Mew debug*.
But there's nothing in it except for a few

<SENTINEL>
finished

pairs.

I do, however, get a traceback:
Signaling: (error "")
  signal(error (""))
  cerror("")
  apply(cerror "" nil)
  error("")
  mew-convert-mime-body(1348 2127 "7bit" linebasep)
  mew-convert-singlepart(nil)
  byte-code("..." [ebound ct bregex start break error-msg re-search-forward nil t format "No last
boundary for %s" mew-tinfo-set-encode-err error "" regexp-quote match-string 0 -1
mew-convert-singlepart throw multipart dctl] 4)
  mew-convert-multipart(("multipart/mixed" ("boundary" "----------=_3E7F58A0.53DD7B16")))
  mew-convert-singlepart()

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