Re: [tlug] mojibake again (was February Nomikai on Valentine's Day?)

[Christian Horn <chorn@example.com>]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 09:43:16AM +0000, Darren Cook wrote:
> > The base64 is broken: there is a blank line and a ")" that should not be
> 
> Curious that others don't see it (I'm using ctrl-u in Thunderbird to
> view source). I've just skimmed a few other tlug emails, and the ")" is
> in only some emails, I didn't spot a pattern (*), but is in all the ones
> that people have reported mojibake for.
> 
> *: I almost had a pattern: the ones with ")" also all had the extra
> google headers (e.g. X-Google-DKIM-Signature), and the others didn't.
> But from "Justin" on Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2020 12:43:39 +0900 has the ")",
> but doesn't have any google headers. (It does have "X-Provags-ID:" and
> "X-UI-Out-Filterresults:", which I didn't spot in other emails.)

Besides the client, also the MTA/mail server could so something
interesting.  You could connect your mailserver via port 25,
hand over a known-to-be-good mail, and see if/how the mail
gets modified.

Chris