-.TH MHFIXMSG %manext1% "March 21, 2013" "%nmhversion%"
+.TH MHFIXMSG %manext1% "May 4, 2013" "%nmhversion%"
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decoding of MIME-encoded message parts and repairing invalid MIME
headers.
.PP
-MIME messages are specified in RFC\-2045 to RFC\-2049
+MIME messages are specified in RFC 2045 to RFC 2049
(see
.IR mhbuild (1)).
The
switch enables a transformation to decode each base64 and
quoted-printable text message part to the selected 8bit or 7bit
encoding. If 7bit is selected for a base64 part but it will only fit
-8bit, as defined by RFC-2045, then it will be decoded to 8bit
+8bit, as defined by RFC 2045, then it will be decoded to 8bit
quoted-printable. Otherwise, if the decoded text would not fit the
selected encoding, the part is not decoded (and a message will be
displayed if
.B \-verbose
is enabled).
.PP
+When the
+.B \-decodetext
+switch is enabled, each carriage return character that precedes a
+linefeed character is removed from ASCII-encoded text parts.
+.PP
The
.B \-textcodeset
switch specifies that all text/plain parts of the message(s)