[jira] Created: (MIME4J-117) Add some kind of extension mechanism for parsing messages that violate the standards

["Markus Wiederkehr (JIRA)" <mi...@james.apache.org>]

Add some kind of extension mechanism for parsing messages that violate the standards
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                 Key: MIME4J-117
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MIME4J-117
             Project: JAMES Mime4j
          Issue Type: New Feature
    Affects Versions: 0.6
            Reporter: Markus Wiederkehr
             Fix For: 0.7


Mime4j claims that "the parser has been designed to be extremely tolerant against messages violating the standards" right on its front page (http://james.apache.org/mime4j/).

The question is how far should Mime4j go in order to keep that promise. For example, should extra data following a valid transfer encoding be ignored or should the parser fall back to 7-bit in that case?

Mime4j probably needs some kind of extension mechanism that allows a user to define a custom behavior to deal with this sort of problems.

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