Subject: bug#45847: 27.1; Shouldn't gnus go along with leading space in mime word, like mutt

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 07:28:39 +0100

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

> mutt can deal fine with these:
> Subject: =?UTF-8?B? 4pyoIEN1cnJpY3VsdW0gY29tIEZvdG8=?=
>                    ^
> From: =?UTF-8?B? U2ltb25lIEzDqm1lcw=?= <[email-masked]>
>                 ^
> (note odd space at start of strings)
>
> I thought gnus was all about smoothing over others mistakes (with no way
> to switch on warnings...) But in this case it (rightly) says "enough is
> enough" and refuses to cooperate with the rule breaker.

There are limits to how much broken-ness Gnus tries to work around.
Closing.

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