Re: Babble from Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>

["Charles Lindsey" <chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <425756AE.2232@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Frank Ellermann <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>Charles Lindsey wrote:

>>> it's a valid RfC 2822 mail header field.
>> It is indeed, but since it is in breach of RFC 2047

>It shouldn't, I've sent it in two lines, 2nd line 76 characters:
>Subject:
> =?UTF-8*de-DE-1996?B?RG9uYXVkYW1wZnNjaGlmZmZhaHJ0c2thcGl0w6Ruc23DvHR6ZQ==?=
>....5...10....5...20....5...30....5...40....5...50....5...60....5...70....5.

Ah! It was all on one line when I received it, so I didn't understand what
your problem was.

>http://article.gmane.org/gmane.ietf.usenet.format:28154:raw
>says that "something" between me and GmaNe "fixed" this, but
>generally my UA is innocent if it comes to attempts of being
>smart.

>> Subject: =?UTF-8*de-DE-?B?RG9uYXVkYW1wZnNjaGlmZmZh?=
>>          =?UTF-8*de-DE-?B?aHJ0c2thcGl0w6Ruc23DvHR6ZQ==?=

>Sure, you and me know this, but I'm talking about existing MUAs,
>mail2news gateways, injection agents, servers, and newsreaders.

Well if the sending agent cannot figure how to do it that way, then it
will just have to leave it on one long line. Then it becomes the reading
agent's problem :-) .

>> BTW, your message achieved a Spammassassin score of 3 :-( .

>1st UTF-8, 2nd B64, what was the 3rd ?

SpamAssassin hits were
FORGED_RCVD_HELO RCVD_BY_IP RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO SUBJECT_EXCESS_BASE64
SUBJECT_NOVOWEL

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