Ben Bucksch wrote:
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> On 09.02.2009 20:51, Ben Bucksch wrote:
>> On 09.02.2009 20:30, Brandon Casey wrote:
>>> Did you try it with the message I sent titled
>>> '[PATCH] example patch corrupted by thunderbird'?
>>
>> I tried now, and none of the editors/viewers I tried are displaying
>> anything that would come close to readable to me, even if you count
>> clearly marked hex character codes as readable. I tried less, e3 and
>> kwrite. Therefore, a) I can't verify whether the result is correct or not

You could look to see whether there are 6 lines in the hunk or 7.
There should only be 6.

  i.e. something like:

  @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
  +T31,23
  +m4_location(_AC_LIST_MEMBER_IF)autoconf/fortran.m4:115
  +T17,203
  +m4_cr_not_Letters<sequence_of_control_characters>
  +<more_control_characters>
  +T15,855
  --

I have attached the original patch.  The headers will be different, and in the
attached patch they are only placeholders, but the content after the '---' should
be identical in all versions.

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> I now compared the result of File | Save as.... (main menu, not context
> menu)

main menu or context menu both produce the same results for me.
Do they produce different results for you?

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> | "1.eml" with the email on the cyrus server, and they are
> identical (diff and md5sum). So, TB *does* save it correctly,
> byte-for-byte.

Sorry, but I think you did your comparison wrong.  Possibly the tool
which extracted the email from the cyrus server performed the same
transformation that Thunderbird does.

You can also make a comparison with what is saved when you do
'View | Message Source' which pops up a new window, and then
File | Save Page As...

For me, they produce two different results. The one produced by
'View | Message Source ..etc' has a message body which is identical to
the one saved by pine, and to the original which is attached.

-brandon