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[ot] RE: Is cygwin-ml softwere altering message content?
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:31:59 +0100
- Subject: [ot] RE: Is cygwin-ml softwere altering message content?
On 17 August 2006 09:25, Václav Haisman wrote:
> Václav Haisman wrote:
>> I have noticed that sometimes my PGP signed messages do not arrive
>> intact from cygwin-ml. The attached two files show the difference
>> between good message, that was sent as Bcc to myself, and bad message
>> that I got from cygwin-ml. If you diff the two text files you will
>> notice additional =2D escape sequences in the bad message. Is this a
>> cygwin-ml software problem?
>>
> Err, I meant =20, not =2D.
That's mime encoding for spaces. Your mailer only uses the mime encoding
for the final char on the line; the sourceware mailer canonicalizes all of
them. They should de-mime-encode to the same result.
cheers,
DaveK
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