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List:       mutt-users
Subject:    Re: quoted-printable in headers
From:       Anand Buddhdev <arb () anand ! org>
Date:       2001-09-30 14:52:59
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On Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 11:28:21AM +0200, Massimo D'Antoni wrote:

> I very often receive mails from
>   =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=E3o Leit=E3o?=
> but the fact that there is a space in the encoded name keeps mutt from
> showing it correctly. I noticed that everything works well if ' '
> is replaced by '_'...
> Is this a mutt problem or it depends (as I suspect) on the sender's
> mailer (apparently he uses netscape webmail)? In the latter case, is 
> there anything I can do?

The sender's mailer is bad. RFC 2047 says that spaces must NEVER be used in
an encoded word in a header, since a space is an atom separator. And yes,
an underscore is to be used for a space. You could fix it as the mail comes
in with some tool like sed or perl.

-- 
Anand Buddhdev

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