From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/52828 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: RFC-2047 vs. INN Compatibility Issue Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 12:44:40 -0700 Organization: The Eyrie Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <20030524155517.GA24987@merlin.emma.line.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1053805427 21230 80.91.224.249 (24 May 2003 19:43:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 19:43:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M1372@lists.math.uh.edu Sat May 24 21:43:44 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 19Jevg-0005W9-00 for ; Sat, 24 May 2003 21:43:44 +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 19Jewy-00064P-00; Sat, 24 May 2003 14:45:04 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19Jews-00063k-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 24 May 2003 14:44:58 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 61214 invoked by alias); 24 May 2003 19:44:57 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 61208 invoked from network); 24 May 2003 19:44:57 -0000 Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (171.64.19.147) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 24 May 2003 19:44:57 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 11673 invoked by uid 50); 24 May 2003 19:44:41 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <20030524155517.GA24987@merlin.emma.line.org> (Matthias Andree's message of "Sat, 24 May 2003 17:55:17 +0200") Original-Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) XEmacs/21.4 (Portable Code, sparc-sun-solaris2.6) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52828 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:52828 Matthias Andree 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)