On 2018-10-28 04:19, Claus Assmann wrote:

> > AAAARGH!!  I am losing my mind!!
> 
> Hopefully it's backed up somewhere...

;-)

> If you kept a copies of the mails which you originally sent
> and which you got back: what's the "diff"?

Indeed I have kept a file copy.  The diff confirms my suspicion that the
dangling spaces were the trigger.  I got this suspicion by looking at
Derek's messages, of which one verifies for me and the other does not.

  @@ -33,7 +89,7 @@
   > Let us check my own sweet key.

   Ok, that worked.  Now let's try this:=20
  -This line ends with a couple of dangling spaces.   =20
  +This line ends with a couple of dangling spaces.=20=20=20=20

   Now _that_ would be really stupid!

This does not tell us at which hop it happens, which software is
responsible, or (especially) why it depends on the _recipient_ aside
from all other things.

> Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
>       by silver.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9B91227F9;
>       Sun, 28 Oct 2018 03:42:34 +0000 (UTC)
> Received: from silver.osuosl.org ([127.0.0.1])
>       by localhost (.osuosl.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024)
>       with ESMTP id R3tMY4OIzjA6; Sun, 28 Oct 2018 03:42:33 +0000 (UTC)
> Received: from ash.osuosl.org (ash.osuosl.org [140.211.166.34])
>       by silver.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C728227C1;
>       Sun, 28 Oct 2018 03:42:33 +0000 (UTC)
> Received: from whitealder.osuosl.org (smtp1.osuosl.org [140.211.166.138])
>  by ash.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C57471BF61D
>  for <mutt-users@mutt.org>; Sun, 28 Oct 2018 03:42:32 +0000 (UTC)
> Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
>  by whitealder.osuosl.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2B3B86767
>  for <mutt-users@mutt.org>; Sun, 28 Oct 2018 03:42:32 +0000 (UTC)
> Received: from whitealder.osuosl.org ([127.0.0.1])
>  by localhost (.osuosl.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024)
>  with ESMTP id 9o-8499bbnC7 for <mutt-users@mutt.org>;
>  Sun, 28 Oct 2018 03:42:32 +0000 (UTC)

Perhaps there is a little clue here.  Some kind of load balancing seems
to be in effect at osuosl, different hosts (silver, whitealder,
fraxinus, ash) are involved each time.  Possibly different amavis
configuration on some of the hosts handling the outbound traffic.  Yes,
I suspect amavis more than the other pieces; it should be the only piece
that takes apart the MIME structure.

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