Subject: bug#38818: jidanni's mail headers not perfect?!

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 10:50:50 +0200

On January 6, 2020 10:30:55 AM GMT+02:00, Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]> wrote:
> On Jan 05 2020, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> From: =?utf-8?B?56mN5Li55bC8?= Dan Jacobson <[email-masked]>
> >>       ^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > Why do you think this arrives intact to people's MUA?
> 
> Why do you think this does not arrive intact to people's MUA?

Because some methods of fetching email auto-convert qp-encoded and base64 encoded parts.

I don't know how exactly RMS fetches his, but it could happen for him.