[darcs-users] MIME Email has Poor Boundaries.

Florian Weimer fw at deneb.enyo.de
Thu Sep 30 12:16:54 UTC 2004


* Ralph Corderoy:

> `darcs reportbug' looks to have a similar problem but chooses
> `++boundary++'.  I'd guess the mail sending code needs to be given the
> content parts to wrap up and pick a boundary that doesn't occur in any
> of them.

Some software uses this approach (e.g. Gnus), but usually, you just
generate a sufficiently long string (probably using cryptographically
strong random numbers).  This is the only way to achieve one-pass
processing.




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