Re: Recent courier versions rejects messag es with "Invalid base64 encoding"
Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]> Fri, 30 Jan 2026 08:31:25 -0500
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Hanno B=C3=B6ck writes:
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
> and
> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=3D"=3Dsomeboundary"
>
> This did not appear in earlier courier versions. Notably, 1.4.1 is
> unaffected, 1.5.1 and 1.6.0 is affected.
This is because of the new MIME parser, which does not understand this.
> From what I can tell reading the RFC, this should not be an invalid
> combination:
> https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2045.html#section-6.4
> 'If an entity is of type "multipart" the Content-Transfer-Encoding is
> not permitted to have any value other than "7bit", "8bit" or "binary".'
This will be fixed.
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