It isn't a workaround

git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/squirrelmail/code/trunk/squirrelmail@9267 7612ce4b-ef26-0410-bec9-ea0150e637f0

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 31c512c11a0977624e45e4201bf935db3f399dde..113ff692724df59a6549dd67e13877542cc4da57 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -309,8 +309,8 @@ Version 1.5.1 -- CVS
   - If From: field is unset in an email, header object for from field is not
     correctly set, and generates an error on reply (#1179754).
   - Add Cancel button to addressbook (#1180565).
-  - Workaround for Courier IMAP; send mixed messages with multiparts
-    with nested boundaries that Courier is able to parse
+  - RFC 2046: Send mixed messages with multipart/alternative nested boundaries
+    with correct boundary strings
   
 Version 1.5.0 - 2 February 2004
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diff --git a/class/deliver/Deliver.class.php b/class/deliver/Deliver.class.php
index b05f20cfe89c9ac316ce035cdeba36d110237342..9a9bce0596f9d6bde60f83d514851576dace36ac 100644 (file)
--- a/class/deliver/Deliver.class.php
+++ b/class/deliver/Deliver.class.php
@@ -77,11 +77,11 @@ class Deliver {
             if (strpos($boundary,'_part_')) {
                 $boundary = substr($boundary,0,strpos($boundary,'_part_'));
 
-            // the next four lines use strrev to reverse any nested boundaries 
-            // as a workaround for Courier-IMAP, which will stop parsing 
-            // when it sees the original outer boundary string and ignore
-            // our "_part_..." addition to that string.  a bug report has been
-            // made, but in the meantime...
+            // the next four lines use strrev to reverse any nested boundaries
+            // because RFC 2046 (5.1.1) says that if a line starts with the outer
+            // boundary string (doesn't matter what the line ends with), that
+            // can be considered a match for the outer boundary; thus the nested
+            // boundary needs to be unique from the outer one
             //
             } else if (strpos($boundary,'_trap_')) {
                 $boundary = substr(strrev($boundary),0,strpos(strrev($boundary),'_part_'));