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I am observing a small problem that sometimes appears when I read mail arriving from this mailing list. If a user (e.g. the person identifying himself as "p dont think") sends a message to this mailing list with a character transfer encoding of quoted-printable, and then I read such a message using pine, I sometimes see only a truncated piece of the message, followed by this error message from pine: [Error: Formatting error: Non-hexadecimal character in QP encoding] I believe this error occurs for the following reason. Quoted-printable encoding requires that every character that follows any = sign be a hexadecimal characters in the range 0-9 and A-F. However, the mailing list software in use for this mailing list appends a trailer to all messages, and that trailer is not encoded in a quoted-printable format, even if the message itself is in quoted-printable format. When this trailer includes any = sign that is not followed by a valid quoted-printable hexadecimal character, the resulting data violates the quoted-printable format. One solution would be for the mailing list software to honor the quoted-printable character transfer encoding and make sure that the entire message body, including all trailer information, is in quoted-printable format. Alternatively, the mailing list could simply reject any quoted-printable mail submitted to the list, so that the sender would then be encouraged to resubmit it in plain text. Rahul ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click -- squirrelmail-users mailing list List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
