Safe IO

Russell Reiter rreiter91-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Wed Nov 16 17:20:03 UTC 2011


I'm replying to this to test if the sig file ameliorates the mime
problem's I'm encountering with my android device. Thanks for the help
Len.

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 08:24:22AM -0500, James Knott wrote:
>> I've sent you a private email to you about this, but I'll say it
>> again here.  Your messages include junk at the bottom, as shown
>> below.  Some of your messages are nothing but junk.  I don't see
>> this from anyone else.
>
> Yes, the mailing list appends an ascii TLUG signature to the message.
> Since these message happen to be base64 encoded (why I have no idea,
> but they are), the ascii being appended results in garbage when you try
> to decode it as base64 data.
>
> So assuming base64 is a valid email encoding (seems to be), then the
> mailing list is at fault for appending ascii to a non ascii message.
> The mailing list software should obey the encoding when appending
> the footer.
>
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