Re: Smartlist problems with base64 encoded UTF-8

As I mentioned earlier, I modified rc.local.s00 to store a copy of the
incoming email before it got processed by Smartlist so that I could
compare the 'before' and the 'after' to see why base64-encoded messages
were getting garbled.

I finally got a message that did get messed-up and on checking the
headers, I found that everything was just fine. Smartlist didn't change
anything that could have caused the problem. This was good because
that's what I would have expected from a mailing list manager. This was
bad because now I had to look a bit deeper as to why this was
happening.

Anyway, I did look a bit closer and found that the problem had nothing
to do with Smartlist. I add a header and a footer to all the messages
sent on the mailing list and these were confusing the MUAs when they
tried to decode the base64 message. The apps assumed that the
plain-text header was part of the encoded message and tried to decode
it and failed. Mystery solved!

I still don't know how to fix the problem but now I know what causes
it. And that is good.

Regards,
- Harshal



		
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