Bug#510808: metamail: filename is not decoded into local character set

[Norman Ramsey <nr@eecs.harvard.edu>]

Package: metamail
Version: 2.7-54
Severity: minor

I'm using metamail -w to save parts of an email message.
A filename is provided that uses no special characters, but it is
nevertheless encoded, so that metamail offers this as the default
file:

    =?ISO-8859-1?B?RE9DMDgwOTA5LnBkZg==?=

Metamail should do the base64 decoding or whatever it is and offer a
more reasonable default filename.  I'm happy for it to stick with
7-bit ASCII plus question marks even; anything's better than the
above.

Norman


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages metamail depends on:
ii  libc6                     2.7-13         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.6+20080531-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand

Versions of packages metamail recommends:
ii  mime-support                  3.44-1     MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  sharutils                     1:4.6.3-1  shar, unshar, uuencode, uudecode

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