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Re: the right bug severity in case of mbox formats



I demand that Jakub Wilk may or may not have written...

> * Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>, 2012-11-28, 19:16:
>> If you don't restrict yourself to avoiding MIME, any piece of text (or 
>> indeed any bytestring) becomes losslessly representable. In particular, 
>> MUAs supporting quoted-printable and/or Base64 can avoid sending 
>> messages matching /^From / by using MIME and quoted-printable-encoding 
>> them. Adam's MUA, which appears to be mutt, does so by using QP, 
>> without special effort from him.

> mutt indeed has an option to that (encode_from), but it's disabled by 
> default.

It would make sense to have that enabled by default, and to ensure that all
software in Debian which produces MIME quoted-printable does this, or at
least can do this.

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From ← should be encoded ☺


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