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From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: RFC-2047 vs. INN Compatibility Issue
Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 12:44:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ylu1bkku3b.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030524155517.GA24987@merlin.emma.line.org> (Matthias Andree's message of "Sat, 24 May 2003 17:55:17 +0200")

Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> writes:

> Gnus just generated an article that news.cis.dfn.de aka
> news.fu-berlin.de didn't accept (they run some INN version I can't
> figure out via NNTP as they put me into NNRPD directly rather than
> INND). Their server complained 441 437 Missing "Subject" header.

> What happened? Gnus generated a header like this in a reply:

> Newsgroups: de.comm.software.mailserver
> Followup-To: poster
> Subject: 
>  =?iso-8859-15?q?Re:_kein_Anmeldung_mit_pop3_m=F6glich_bei_courier-imap?=

> Looks like this is fine according to RFC-2822 and 2047, but it is not a
> recommended way to encode the header, rfc2047.el encodes too much
> currently.

All versions of INN will reject that.  (It's a long-standing bug in the
INN header parsing.)

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-24 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-24 15:55 Matthias Andree
2003-05-24 19:44 ` Russ Allbery [this message]
2003-05-26 18:40   ` Matthias Andree
2003-05-26 19:38     ` Russ Allbery
2003-05-28 17:28   ` Dave Love
2003-05-28 19:12     ` Russ Allbery
2003-05-28 17:27 ` Dave Love

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