Re: [Pan-users] .94 weirdness with detecting attachments

[Charles Kerr]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 12:52:39PM -0400, John Aldrich wrote:
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> On Thursday 07 August 2003 11:40 am, Charles Kerr wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 08:21:26AM -0700, Chris Petersen wrote:
> > > Since upgrading from .91 to .94, I've noticed that pan has been really
> > > bad about detecting attachments..  Instead of one broken attachment
> > > article, I'll get a couple broken attachments articles, and a whole
> > > bunch of just-text articles...
> > >
> > > I'm looking for some kind of pattern to those that don't get found, but
> > > there really doesn't seem to be one (at first, I thought it had to do
> > > with those that have two [##/##] type entries in the subject, or ones
> > > that lack an "01" segment, but some like that get found just fine.
> >
> > Got a [group + subjects] example where you're seeing this, so that
> > I can take a look at it?
>
> Charles... I'm seeing the same behavior with non-binary groups. i.e. 
> text-only 
> documents published in multiple posts and labeled as such. For example, "some 
> subject here 1/5" and "some subject here 2/5" and "some subject here 3/5" 
> etc. will show up as "broken parts" because Pan is trying to "decode" 
> non-binary multipart posts and is freaking out because there is no way to 
> decode these.... 

I don't think this is the same bug: Chris is reporting that Pan is
incorrectly treating multiparts as non-multiparts; you're reporting that
Pan is incorrectly treating non-multiparts as multiparts. :)

> Dunno if it'd be a simple fix to tell PAN that if it doesn't find a header 
> indicating that it's a multipart binary post to ignore the "part x/y" in the 
> subject and just display 'em.

There *is* no multipart binary post header, which is why Pan has to
guess from the x/y.

-- 
cheers,
Charles