GNU bug report logs - #45586
27.1; Sometime gnus could be less forgiving of bad RFC 2047 encoded word syntax

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Packages: emacs, gnus;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2021 02:44:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Found in version 27.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 27.1; Sometime gnus could be less forgiving of bad RFC 2047 encoded
 word syntax
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2021 10:43:25 +0800

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.
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