Re: charset issues with From: header
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* Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [01-08-08 14:18]:
> 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.
Thanks, I'll bust google's mail-admin's chops. I wasn't sure it was
them, but ....
tks,
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