GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 112442
Encoded header isn't decoded properly
Last modified: 2006-06-18 05:11:39 UTC
Sometimes, encoded header lines aren't decoded properly. Eg. the following article (just the headers): Path: uni-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!news.bnc.net!news.t-online.com!newsmm00.sul.t-online.com!t-online.de!news.t-online.com!not-for-mail From: "Axel Hoffmann" <allmann.tv@web.de> Newsgroups: de.comp.os.unix.networking.samba Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22SuSE_Linux_8.1_Professional=22_USER_automatisch_von_Lin?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?ux_mit_Passwort_in_Samba_=FCbertragen?= Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 01:05:47 +0200 Organization: T-Online Lines: 14 Message-ID: <b91i03$bdo$00$1@news.t-online.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.t-online.com 1052003140 00 11704 3ZwME82TSyA8CR 030503 23:05:40 X-Complaints-To: abuse@t-online.com X-ID: rqH-5EZQYehtMjs3HmH9TOX3gXAiHFQNlN9Hul4ZsL+oCSXzXdSnwX X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Xref: uni-berlin.de de.comp.os.unix.networking.samba:16182 Pan 0.13.95 on Windows displays the subject as: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22SuSE_Linux_8.1_Professional=22_USER_automatisch_von_Lin?= ux mit Passwort in Samba übertragen So it seems that it failed to decode the 1st subject line. I also noticed this problem with old (0.11.x?) builds on Linux.
This is because the headers aren't encoded correctly to begin with: colons are not allowed in encoded strings. Supporting this will require a sync w/ GMime 2.1, which is less strict in this respect (see bug #108557).
Did I say 'colons'? Of course, I meant 'dots'. :)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 116269 ***