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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 12:02:32 +0200

On January 6, 2020 11:23:13 AM GMT+02:00, Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]> wrote:
> On Jan 06 2020, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> But that isn't the fault of the raw mail contents.

This isn't about assigning blame, this is about finding where that mojibake comes from and what triggers it, and hopefully figuring out how to avoid or fix that.