Hello,

it seems, that Mahogany wrongly encodes some Subject-Lines containing
Non-ASCII-characters.
Those lines aren't correctly displayed by most MUAs, funnily enough
sometimes _including_ Mahogany.

Find below the conversation between Lutz (a friend of mine, using Mulberry)
and one of the Mulbery-developers.

---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Date: Montag, 2003-09-01 16:36 -0400
From: Cyrus Daboo
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Foreign Chars's in subject line

Hi Lutz,

--On Monday, September 01, 2003 10:17:57 PM +0200 Lutz wrote:

| I have some problems with foreign chars in the subject line (created by
| the email client Mahogany). Mulberry (as well als Outlook and Pine) are
| unable to decode it correctly. Mozilla seems to be able to decode it. Is
| this a problem with Mulberry or does the sender generates the wrong codes
| ?
|
| Here is an example of a subject line:
|
| Subject:  =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E4=F6=FC=C4=D6=DC=DF=20-=20Du=20 wolltest:
| =20es=20nicht?==?ISO-8859-1?Q?=

That subject line ends with an illegal MIME encoded tag:

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=

It should be:

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?...?=

where '...' was some legitimate encoded data. If there is no encoded data
then  it should not be present at all according to the spec.

When I corrected the subject line and put it in a message in a local
mailbox it was parsed correctly.

Our policy is that if there is ANY problem doing MIME decoding of a header
then the entire header is left unencoded. It may be that Mozilla decodes
the first part and then fails on the second illegal token, though it does
show the decoded first part.

--------- End Forwarded Message ----------

Side note:
The original Subject-Line was something along the line of:
������� - Du wolltest es nicht besser

Please drop me a note, if I should open a case in the Bugtracker.

Martin

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