[darcs-devel] Re: [darcs-users] Broken mailer ?

[Ian Lynagh]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 04:18:33PM +0100, Tommy Pettersson wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 03:09:55PM +0100, Daniel Bünzli wrote:
> > Relevant seems that Mail.app drops Content-Description and the final  
> 
> This is very relevant since darcs looks for that line when
> it extracts the patch bundle from the mail.  Darcs isn't very
> good at MIME either.
> 
> A slight improvement would be for darcs to look for the line
> 'Content-Type: text/x-darcs-patch' and then search from there
> for a blank line, to find the start of the patch bundle.
> 
> An better fix would be to use some Haskell MIME library,
> if it exists.

Message/ in http://urchin.earth.li/darcs/ian/bark/ might be useful.
Unfortunately not something I've got around to cabalising yet.


Thanks
Ian