Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] headers gone wild!

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Michael wrote:

>> I don't know where the '=' characters come from.  Often I get a lot of 
>> '=20' at the ends of lines.  Does anyone know why?
>
> Is this some sort of encoding that's gotten mangled through passing the 
> message through several parties? I notice them only on mesages I've 
> gotten through mailing lists. Have you gotten any direct email that has 
> this mangling?

It seems to me that I see it only in forwarded mail.  Good call!  It seems 
to appear in places where there should be spaces, so maybe it is related 
to hexadecimal ascii character 20 (space)?

Related point:  I think it has to do with improper conversion of 
end-of-line space characters that are used for "flowed" text, as in 
messages with this in the header:

Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed

Somehow, some mailers must not get that final space right.


>> HTML attachments are very annoying.  Everything coming to me also gets 
>> forwarded to a Gmail account and I often just read HTML attachments 
>> there.
>
> I hate 'click this link' crap in my email. If they want me to go to a 
> website, such as to confirm registering to a website, then send me a 
> url. I don't need damn HTML mail.

Any respectable MUA should make URLs in plain text clickable, so HTML is 
overkill.


>> Keep up the good work, Michael!  I'm looking forward to seeing the 
>> finished product.
>
> Hopefully someday. For now I'm just bitching about every little crazy 
> ass thing I have to make work despite the bizarre ways some email 
> clients send stuff out.

Now you are learning why others have not done this before.  It's a hard 
job.  That makes your efforts more valuable.  It's also a really important 
kind of project that can be used by millions of people.  I hope you get to 
be a major leader in e-mail storage/processing.  After you get something 
finished, you'll have to try to attract a legion of followers world-wide 
who want to contribute to the project.  Keep it up!

Mike
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