From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/53026 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: something decodes my headers... Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 23:53:31 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054849885 23963 80.91.224.249 (5 Jun 2003 21:51:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 21:51:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M1570@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jun 05 23:51:22 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19O2dm-0006E0-00 for ; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 23:51:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19O2g0-0000zB-00; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 16:53:40 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19O2fw-0000z6-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 16:53:36 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 1141 invoked by alias); 5 Jun 2003 21:53:36 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 1136 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2003 21:53:36 -0000 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net (HELO yxa.extundo.com) (217.13.230.178) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 5 Jun 2003 21:53:36 -0000 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h55LrVB4005004 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK); Thu, 5 Jun 2003 23:53:31 +0200 Original-To: Jan Rychter Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:030605:jan@rychter.com:f583fd8618d3bd11 X-Hashcash: 0:030605:jan@rychter.com:f583fd8618d3bd11 X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:030605:ding@gnus.org:bac59318259ebe93 X-Hashcash: 0:030605:ding@gnus.org:bac59318259ebe93 In-Reply-To: (Jan Rychter's message of "Thu, 05 Jun 2003 12:01:09 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53026 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53026 Jan Rychter writes: > ... and I don't know what it is. > > I get lots of mail with RFC2047-encoded From: fields. Mostly > ISO-8859-2. Now, when mail-extr gets to those headers, they are already > in 8-bit form, which causes mail-extr to fail tragically. I get chopped > names, annoying BBDB behavior, and all sorts of breakage. People who get > ISO-8859-1 E-mail don't see this, because mail-extr.el is "extended" to > handle ISO-8859-1 in a particularly ugly way. Do you have a backtrace that says where mail-extr is invoked? I think it might be a bug to invoke mail-extr on 8bit data. > I've tried to trace what it is that decodes the headers to 8bit before > mail-extr sees them -- but I have no idea. They are RFC2047-encoded on > the disk. Looking through my init files also did not produce any clues. Note that if it is bbdb that calls mail-extr, it is probably a bug in bbdb. Chopped names could indicate a bug in rfc2047.el though, there where bugs like this recently (perhaps not fixed? I recall emacs bugs caused them).