[fpc-pascal] Problems reading some of the messages from this mailing list

Tomas Hajny XHajT03 at hajny.biz
Mon Sep 23 14:17:19 CEST 2013


On Mon, September 23, 2013 13:22, Sven Barth wrote:
> Am 23.09.2013 13:09, schrieb Guillermo Martínez:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm receiving some of the messages from this mailing list coding in an
>> odd format: A block of characters and digits without any sense.  For
>> example, the one I quoted at the end of this mail. Does somebody knows
>> why?
>>
>>
> According to my Thunderbird the message you quoted is of mime type
> "multipart/mixed", so it's basically a HTML mail. Maybe that is the
> problem?

That should not be an issue by itself. The more likely reason is probably
use of 8-bit message (utf-8) without encoding in us-ascii (7-bit)
compatible "envelope" - typically MIME Quoted Printable (as already used
for the HTML section, but not for the plain text version). Some mail
servers may not allow that and recode the message in MIME Base64 encoding
(which is most likely the text below); while doing that, they should
include this information in the header, but I suspect that this hasn't
happened in the case of Guillermo (this could be checked if he forwards
the received message in attachment - doing this via fpc-other would be
more appropriate than here). Nevertheless, the real solution is probably
for Philippe to configure his e-mail client not to send 8-bit messages
without 7-bit "safe" encoding).

Tomas





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