Re: Surprising MIME Type from Android.

[Bob Carragher]

Hi Ralph,

Checking email going back to 2013, I could not find a single
occurrence of that pattern.

                                Bob

On Mon, 25 Jul 2022 10:28:52 +0100 Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk> sez:

> Hi again,
>
> > I ran mhstore(1) and was surprised by the ‘81081.2.*’ filename.
> ...
> >      2     image/*                  2985K
> ...
> > I haven't checked yet, but I assume it violates the RFCs.
>
> It does by my reading of
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2045#section-5.1
>
> Something for mhfixmsg(1) to correct?
>
> >     ----_com.samsung.android.email_135816585189000
> >     Content-Type: image/*; name="20220721_180552.jpg"
> ...
> > which suggests a Samsung Galaxy S9 took the photo but that doesn't meant
>
> Has anyone else got an example?
>
>     pick -sea 'content-type.*\*'
>
> Note, don't use ‘--content-type’ as that only searches the header's
> fields.
>
> -- 
> Cheers, Ralph.