On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 10:35 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 21:21 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > Still, i'm extremely loathe to, since it is a clear breakage of a
> > pretty simple set of rules from a not-particularly complex rfc.
> > Seriously, MS should know better, for such a fundamental issue.  We've
> > had issues with rfc compliance in that code and fixed it, i'm sure
> > they can too.
> 
> Whatever happened to "be strict in what you send and flexible in what
> you accept"? (I'm paraphrasing, but that was once the golden rule of the
> Internet).

whatever happened to reading the spec?

seriously tho, rfc2047 is pretty clear about how to deal with broken
encoded-words. simply don't decode them... and this is what Evolution
follows.

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Novell, Inc.
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