Subject: [sup-talk] encoded from/subject lines?

From: [email-masked] (Ian Taylor)
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:47:56 -0400

I'm seeing a lot more mail since the latest fix for the message-id
problem. Thanks for fixing that.

Now, a lot of these messages also seem to have portions of the from and
subject lines that look like this:

-   From: =?ISO-8859-1?B?QW1hem9uLmNvbQ==?= <books at amazon.com>

In the message list view, it's hard to tell who the mail is from or what
it is about when all I can see is this garbage.

Just letting you know.

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From: [email-masked] (William Morgan)
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:38:04 -0700

> -   From: =?ISO-8859-1?B?QW1hem9uLmNvbQ==?= <books at amazon.com>

These are RFC 2047 headers. Decoding them is on the todo list. If this
is prevalent, I will bump up the priority.

-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>

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From: [email-masked] (jeff covey)
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:15:33 -0400

Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Wed Jun 13 17:38:04 -0400 2007:

> These are RFC 2047 headers. Decoding them is on the todo list. If this is
> prevalent, I will bump up the priority.

i see this all the time.  it's usually a good indicator of spam.  :)

-- 
jeff covey
http://jeffcovey.net/