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Re: charset issues with From: header

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On Monday, January  7 at 02:57 PM, quoth Patrick Shanahan:
>I have an odd display probably charset issues with the "From:" header
>line which appear to have started about 1 Jan 08 which I thought was
>related to gmail, but have since seen it also from other sites.
>
>I see (note that name has been altered):
>
>From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn_K_Nisppen_ <bk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>        ?=@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>which contains the senders email address and my site address.

Bizarre. That's not a charset issue, that's a flat-out illegal RFC 
2047 encoding, and violates several MUST NOT's in the RFC. Off the top 
of my head:

     - MUST NOT appear in any portion of an addr-spec (i.e. an address)
     - white space characters MUST NOT appear between components of an
       encoded word

>note that the odd "From:" appears in the raw mbox file.

Wherever it came from, something corrupted that message. Google has 
been known to do this; I don't know of anyone else, though.

~Kyle
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