Re: [mailop] Corrupt plain text email

2021-09-02 Thread Andreas Schamanek via mailop
On Fri, 3 Sep 2021, at 13:45, Tom Wong-Cornall via mailop wrote: On Fri, Sep 3 '21 at 10.02 NZST, Mark Fletcher via mailop wrote: On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 2:31 PM Ken Johnson via mailop wrote: The kind of answer I was expecting was along the lines of "Obviously your data has been mis-interp

Re: [mailop] Corrupt plain text email

2021-09-02 Thread Tom Wong-Cornall via mailop
On Fri, Sep 3 '21 at 10.02 NZST, Mark Fletcher via mailop wrote: > On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 2:31 PM Ken Johnson via mailop > wrote: > > > > > The kind of answer I was expecting was along the lines of "Obviously your > > data has been mis-interpreted as XYZZY encoding. You can read about XYZZY >

Re: [mailop] Corrupt plain text email

2021-09-02 Thread Mark Fletcher via mailop
On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 2:31 PM Ken Johnson via mailop wrote: > > The kind of answer I was expecting was along the lines of "Obviously your > data has been mis-interpreted as XYZZY encoding. You can read about XYZZY > encoding here ." (I did not say so, not > wanting to launch preconceptions.) >

Re: [mailop] Corrupt plain text email

2021-09-02 Thread Ken Johnson via mailop
2021 12:58 PM To: mailop@mailop.org Subject: [mailop] Corrupt plain text email I recently needed to send a software key to a remote colleague who needed to reinstall some commercial software after re-installing Windows. However, after the key failed to authorize, an investigation determined that the k

Re: [mailop] Corrupt plain text email

2021-09-02 Thread Andrew C Aitchison via mailop
On Thu, 2 Sep 2021, Ken Johnson via mailop wrote: I recently needed to send a software key to a remote colleague who needed to reinstall some commercial software after re-installing Windows. However, after the key failed to authorize, an investigation determined that the key was corrupt in the

Re: [mailop] Corrupt plain text email

2021-09-02 Thread Alessandro Vesely via mailop
On Thu 02/Sep/2021 19:58:10 +0200 Ken Johnson via mailop wrote: The first line of the key is: PXP70-KK4tQ6fJQYAI32PugLL4GK9pJOZT4ocM9J0ICAoharwSAYhplSMpFm+n+b2xJ65hNI043 which becomes: PXP70-KK4tQ6fJQYAI32PugLL4GK9pJOZT4ocM9J0ICAoharwSAYhplSMpFm+n+b2xJ65hNI PXP70-KK4tQ6fJQYAI32PugLL4GK9pJOZT4o

Re: [mailop] Corrupt plain text email

2021-09-02 Thread Mary via mailop
Maybe the remote SMTP is failing to properly wrap from 75 characters down to 72? Maybe line wrapping is interfering with base64 decode (if base64 was applied)? It would be helpful to know the remote SMTP software+version and a copy of your email headers, showing what kind of encoding & content-

Re: [mailop] Corrupt plain text email

2021-09-02 Thread Chris Woods via mailop
On Thu, 2 Sep 2021 at 19:35, Ken Johnson via mailop wrote: > I recently needed to send a software key to a remote colleague who needed > to > reinstall some commercial software after re-installing Windows. However, > after the key failed to authorize, an investigation determined that the key > w

Re: [mailop] Corrupt plain text email

2021-09-02 Thread Aaron C. de Bruyn via mailop
What software is in-use for the mail server, any AV products that might be intercepting it, and the mail clients? Have you tried tossing a packet capture on the mail server to see what is received from your client? Or what the recipient receives when he pulls mail from his box? -A On Thu, Sep 2

[mailop] Corrupt plain text email

2021-09-02 Thread Ken Johnson via mailop
I recently needed to send a software key to a remote colleague who needed to reinstall some commercial software after re-installing Windows. However, after the key failed to authorize, an investigation determined that the key was corrupt in the email he received from me. The first line of the key