Subject: bug#45586: 27.1; Sometime gnus could be less forgiving of bad RFC 2047 encoded word syntax

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2021 12:05:57 +0100

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email-masked]> writes:

> If only sometimes gnus was stricter, or even warned, when encountering
> bad Subject lines, we users could have warned the power company years
> earlier, rather than only learning about the problem one day when we
> used Gmail instead.
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65500376/mime-email-subject-etc-headers-vs-utf8-first-split-then-encode
>
> So being over-forgiving has its pluses and minuses.

Gnus will continue to be liberal in what it receives.  Closing.

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