Hi, as a bystander i must say that the involved mail clients invest much effort in making this thread a mess.
In the archives, the initial message is quite readable but with seriously oversized lines: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/10/msg01079.html The two follow-ups by the original poster don't make it better, but also not much worse. Then comes https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/10/msg01091.html where Renaud's client obviously copied the previous text in a way which, after running through the archive's web server, makes my Iceweasel go mad. Text snippets like "pam ot gniyrT :lataF" reveil their origin only if i read them backwards "Fatal: Trying to map" My local mail client alpine shows the older texts as large paragraphs with no line breaks and interjected ">" or "<". Also there are placeholder characters for undisplayable UTF-8 characters. My mailbox file contains stuff like "=E2=80=AD=E2=80=AEMore:I installed to the" According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8, "E2" indicates a three-byte character. http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~richard/utf-8.cgi?input=E2+80+AD&mode=bytes says its LEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE. The other http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~richard/utf-8.cgi?input=E2+80+AE&mode=bytes is RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE. This brings me to http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/09/right-to-left-override-aids-email-attacks/ Well, i cannot spot an .exe file in disguise, at least. :)) Have a nice day :) Thomas