[Mailman-Users] A scrubber issue

[Todd Zullinger]

Related to the second part of Werner's message being scrubbed with the
message:

    An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed...

Poking in the email package (on python 2.4.4) shows:

    def get_content_charset(self, failobj=None):
        """Return the charset parameter of the Content-Type header.

        The returned string is always coerced to lower case.  If there is no
        Content-Type header, or if that header has no charset parameter,
        failobj is returned.
        """

This seems to violate section 5.2 of RFC 2045 which says parts lacking
a Content-type header should be assumed to be text/plain with a
charset of us-ascii.  The get_content_type method in email.Message
does mention RFC 2045 and uses text/plain if the content-type is
invalid.  Would it be appropriate to set failobj="us-ascii" when
calling this method in Scrubber.py?

BTW, if it's easier for you guys to track this in bugzilla, let me
know and I'll file on one SF.

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