Re: unreadable message

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Wed, Oct 01 2008, Alexey Pustyntsev wrote:

>> Where do you look at the unreadable, "encrypted" message?
>
> If I am not mistaken all that happened in the very same buffer where I
> type my replies. That's ~/News/drafts/drafts/1, or something like
> that. That was really strange. 

Are you saying it happened *during* composing a message, *before*
sending it?  If so, I have no idea why this might happen.

But the excerpt below looks like an archived (outgoing) article:

> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>
> tdGCINCx0L7Qu9GM0YjQvtC5INC/0LvQsNGB0YIg0LIg0YHQvtC30L3QsNC90LjQuCDQvdCw0YDQ
[...]
> There was nothing unusual in my email, excluding may be a very long
> url with lots of "%" characters that I copied from my web browser
> (FF). Another thing I should probably mention is that the weirdness
> seems to occur when emails are rather long. I do recall this strange
> encryption happened when the size of my emails exceeded the average
> size.

Using "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64" (what you called
"encrypted") happens when there are many 8bit characters
(`mm-qp-or-base64').  There's nothing wrong with that.

> After the weird message was sent, I can look at it in my outbox
> (nnml:outbox) only.    

Bye, Reiner.
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