On 03/14/2014 07:32 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 03/14/2014 07:25 PM, NoOp wrote:
>> On 03/14/2014 07:19 PM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
>>> NoOp wrote:
>>> 
>>>> User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101
>>>> Firefox/27.0 SeaMonkey/2.24
>>>> Build identifier: 20140203230449
>>>>
>>>> Received an email today from a US government agency that is encoded with:
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> Reset Password
>>>> Dear <user>,
>>>> Click on the link below to reset your password.
>>>> Reset Password
>>>> This link will expire in 24 hours.
>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>> Human Resources
>>>> THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC SYSTEM GENERATED EMAIL. PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO
>>>> THIS MESSAGE.
>>>>
>>>> (No link actually appears in the Opera)
>>> 
>>> I would take one look at that and flag it as junk; it looks like the 
>>> last five phishing attempts that crossed my desk. Do you have any reason 
>>> to believe it's legit and worth your time?
>>> 
>> 
>> Actually it's not junk/phishing at all - it's a valid email from
>> usps.gov and is a response to my request to reset a password.
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> Just tested with Evolution 3.2.3 (linux) and it correctly decodes the
> email body (including the link):
> ====
> Reset Password
> 
> 
> Dear <user>,
> 
> Click on the link below to reset your password.
> HTTPS://WP1-EXT.USPS.GOV/...<rest of link details redacted>
> 
> Reset Password
> 
> This link will expire in 24 hours.
> ====
> 

Well here is an interesting twist; it appears that the issue is with the
SeaMonkey/Thunderbird email display decoding. When I compose a reply,
the message text appears properly:

On 3/14/2014 3:32 PM, ERP Workflow System wrote:> Reset Password
> Dear <user>,
> Click on the link below to reset your password.
> Reset Password
> <HTTPS://WP1-EXT.USPS.GOV/sap/...rest of url redacted
> This link will expire in 24 hours.
> Kind Regards,
> Human Resources
> THIS IS AN AUTOMATIC SYSTEM GENERATED EMAIL.  PLEASE DO NOT RESPOND TO
THIS MESSAGE.
>

Tested in both linux and Windows versions of SeaMonkey & Thunderbird.

I guess it's time to add mozilla.dev.apps.seamonkey to the thread...

Maybe related:
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779087>
Bug 779087 - The sourcecode view is brohen opening mail written in
UTF-16 (If mail of charset=UTF-16, View/Message Source shows entire
message source data as UTF-16)
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