Thanks, I took the road you suggested. On 3 Apr 2022, at 20:12, Bill Cole wrote:
> On 2022-04-03 at 12:19:20 UTC-0400 (Sun, 03 Apr 2022 18:19:20 +0200) > Matthias Schmidt via mailmate <[email protected]> > is rumored to have said: > >> Hello, >> >> sometimes I get email with malformed content. >> These mails share: >> - they come from a specific contact-form via a database (4D) >> - they are usually sent by bots through the form >> BUT >> sometimes the malformed message is sent by a human. >> >> The malformed content only appears in Mailmate as malformed. >> This looks like: ‘UgYXMgc29vbiBhcyB0aGV5IGhpdCB5b3VyIHNpdGXigKYNCiANC…’ >> >> Other mail-clients (, eM Client, Canary) are having no problems displaying >> the content correctly. >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 >> >> my guess is there’s a little mistake in the content and all other mail >> clients tolerate that, MM doesn’t. > > That's the likely root cause. the code in the database hasn’t been changed for years. The problem popped up much later and only in MM And even an online converter converts the raw text into what I expect. So, yes, this is strange. > > I haven't seen MM fail to decode many messages, and never seen it fail to > decode a message that other clients handle normally, except for wildly > misconstructed spam. > >> Could this please be fixed. > > Only Benny can say... > > I expect that he won't have any way to fix it if he does not have a concrete > example of a message that MM can't handle. You may need to use the > "Help->Send Feedback" to share a sam ple message with him to get a fix. > > > > -- > Bill Cole > [email protected] or [email protected] > (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) > Not Currently Available For Hire > _______________________________________________ > mailmate mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate _______________________________________________ mailmate mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
