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- The following is a list of known places for possible improvement to
- the GMime library. This list of tasks in no way indicates priority,
- that is to say that there is no rhyme or reason to the order that the
- tasks are presented in.
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- - better handling of invalid raw 8bit headers. need to somehow provide
- a way for the app to tell gmime how to handle these. perhaps a
- callback set on the parser object that gets called if gmime fails to
- be able to convert it to UTF-8 (after trying locale charset of
- course). Or... maybe some form of auto-charset-detection black magic?
-
- - Fix multipart/signed support so that verifying signatures will feed
- the complete signed-part in raw format (ie, without reformatting
- Content-* headers) to gpg. Currently I only feed the raw content of
- the signed part to gpg but the headers have been processed by GMime
- and so *may* be folded differently from the original Content-*
- headers.
-
- - make thread-safe? some stuff already is, like the gmime-iconv code
- and some of the other charset stuff. Streams and other objects,
- however, are not. How can I do this...? And is it really needed?
-
- - Possibly make the GMime parser incremental.
-
- - modify address parser:
-
- <charles> on usenet it's not uncommon to have header like "From: Joe Bob"
- <charles> where people use no address at all to avoid spammers
- <fejj> ok
- <charles> It would be nice if internet-address handled this
- <charles> have ->name == "Joe Bob" and ->value.addr == NULL
- <fejj> oh, so only support writing them? ah, that should be easy
- <charles> It looks like the else clause on line 582 is where a "Joe Bob" string fails
- <fejj> I was pondering how I could possibly parse that as a name :)
- <charles> No, I am asking about parsing
- <fejj> oh
- <charles> It would be nice for internet_address_parse_string() to return an
- InternetAddress with a name of "Joe Bob" and a NULL addr
- <fejj> ah, okay
- <fejj> I guess I can do that
- <fejj> I'll have to modify my internet_address_to_string code to handle that too
- <fejj> but that should be easy
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- - S/MIMEv3: http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/smime-charter.html
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- All questions and comments should be directed toward the author,
- Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj@ximian.com>
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