Re: Smartlist problems with base64 encoded UTF-8

Roger Burton West <[email protected]> Tue, 24 May 2005 09:40:00 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.mail.smartlist.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 03:06:59PM -0700, Harshal wrote:

>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!

This is one of the many reasons why it's a good idea to squash all list
messages down to plain text before other processing. There are several
programs to do this, including my own textfilter (available on
request); it just makes life vastly easier...

Roger