Re: Smartlist problems with base64 encoded UTF-8

On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 03:06:59PM -0700, Harshal wrote:

Anyway, I did look a bit closer and found that the problem had nothing to do with Smartlist. I add a header and a footer to all the messages sent on the mailing list and these were confusing the MUAs when they tried to decode the base64 message. The apps assumed that the plain-text header was part of the encoded message and tried to decode it and failed. Mystery solved!

This is one of the many reasons why it's a good idea to squash all list messages down to plain text before other processing. There are several programs to do this, including my own textfilter (available on request); it just makes life vastly easier... Roger