on 06/12/2003 04:22 PM, Barry Wainwright at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> This is an occasionally reported problem, and every issue followed to date has
> concluded with evidence that the user�s ISP�s mail server has incorrectly
> handled the message and truncated it.
>
> If you see the problem when the period is at around the 72nd character (I
> forget the exact number, but it is somewhere between 70 & 76), this is almost
> certainly what you are seeing.
>
> If you want, I will willingly co-operate in some tests with you. Contact me
> offlist if you want to.
I must admit, I hate the fact that I even know about this, but it is the
76th character, RFC 1521 has all the gross details on it. In general, it has
to do with quoted printable emails. I would have to say the chances of a
email server munging the data is probably the wrong place to be looking.
Most mta's simply pass the message along, whereas the client is what is
probably doing the munging. In this case when I say client, I mean the
sending client, not the recipient. The Quoted-Printable encoding REQUIRES
that encoded lines be no more than 76 characters long. If longer lines are
to be encoded with the Quoted-Printable encoding, 'soft' line breaks must be
used. An equal sign as the last character on a encoded line indicates such a
non-significant ('soft') line break in the encoded text. I have found
entourage to always parse quoted printable just fine, and even go beyond
that and encode and decode high ASCII as well, which is not part of the RFC
spec. Since entourage favors curly quotes and such, I guess that is why it
does this and does it well. Makes it harder to parse out quoted printable
coming from Entourage, but I have gotten used to it. At any rate, look at
where the message came from, not the ISP's server, I think you will find
that there is a bug in their software, and I would almost put money on it
being that one email app, QuickMail Pro, which is almost always in violation
of RFC in one way or another. I have also seen Eudora do some really
strange stuff as well, again, not a Entourage issue, but the other clients
issue.
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