On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 08:21:43PM +0200, mad wrote: || Hi! || || I am forwarding emails from a big email provider to my private email || server (postfix, dovecot). || || At the email provider the first line of the email headers is: || || Received: from X.X.X.X... 0000000: ef bb bf 52 65 63 65 69 76 65 64 3a ...Received: For those who cannot see this: this line is preceded by a UTF-8 encoded Unicode byte order mark, indicating that the remaining text is encoded in UTF-8. || When the mail is finally put into my mailbox at my own email server this || is no longer the first line but there are a lot of headers before the || Received line but the strange thing is, that the line from above now has || additional characters at the beginning: || || Received: from X.X.X.X... 0000000: c3 af c2 bb c2 bf 52 65 63 65 69 76 65 64 3a ......Received: Here, the UTF-8 encoded byte order mark was interpreted as if it were ISO-8859-1, giving three characters, and subsequently re-encoded as UTF-8. My first guess is that some mail processing software, perhaps the spam filter, accidentally puts the byte order mark there because it is using a strange encoding setting. I could be wrong, of course. Vincent. -- Vincent Zweije <vincent@zweije.nl> | "If you're flamed in a group you <http://www.xs4all.nl/~zweije/> | don't read, does anybody get burnt?" [Xhost should be taken out and shot] | -- Paul Tomblin on a.s.r.
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