Bug 62536 - knode uses quoted-printable without specifying it in the header
Summary: knode uses quoted-printable without specifying it in the header
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Alias: None
Product: knode
Classification: Miscellaneous
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdepim bugs
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Reported: 2003-08-12 10:38 UTC by Jens
Modified: 2018-09-04 18:34 UTC (History)
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Description Jens 2003-08-12 10:38:22 UTC
Version:           0.7.6 (using KDE 3.1.9)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.1 20030626 (Debian prerelease)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.2.20

I posted a mail with long syslog excepts, and an attachment, to gmane.linux.kernel (GMane is a NNTP gateway for thousands of mailing lists, see www.gmane.org).

When I wanted to post, KNode complained that the post contained wrong characters for the specified charset, and I was supposed to specify another one. (why? I set this to "auto" because I DIDN'T want to keep saying what charset I want!)

The post then appeared in my "sent_3.mbox" file (in knode's config directory underneath $KDEHOME) and in the mailing list with quoted-printable encoding, but NOT the appropriate headers (so that other mail software could not view this properly). Also, when sending it got truncated (which I suppose was done by the receiving mailserver, maybe because of the wrong encoding, I don't know).


From aaa@aaa Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 1997
X-KNode-Overview: Re: Linux 2.4.22-rc2  gmane.linux.kernel              3031
Message-Id: <bh8vv8$3qc$1@sea.gmane.org>
From: Jens Benecke <usenet@jensbenecke.de>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.22-rc2
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 22:57:21 +0200
References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308081751390.10734-100000@logos.cnet>
Lines: 3031
User-Agent: KNode/0.7.6
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="nextPart1474120.dtPh4Wnd94"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit
X-No-Archive: Yes

--nextPart1474120.dtPh4Wnd94
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit

Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> Here goes release candidate 2.
> It contains yet another bunch of important fixes, detailed below.
> Nice weekend for all of you!

I'm having problems.  had them with -pre10 as well, posted here, but th=
ey
somehow didn't appear in the list.

Here's the short story: No network (3c509) because the card gets IRQ 22=
 (or
something) and doesn't like it, no USB, no firewire, no X11 (yeah, shou=
ld
have recompiled the NVIDIA drivers, duh), and a total crash on shutdown=


truncated here. I guess because the next line was a single dot on a line and thus got misinterpreted by the mail server (which should be prevented by proper encoding - at least I would expect this).


my knoderc settings for posting news:

[POSTNEWS]
8BitEncoding=false
Att_Headers=115,91,55,110,60
Att_Splitter=595,91
Charset=iso-8859-1
ComposerCharsets=us-ascii,utf-8,iso-8859-1,iso-8859-2,iso-8859-3,iso-8859-4,iso-8859-5,iso-8859-6,iso-8859-7,iso-8859-8,iso-88
Intro=%NAME wrote:
MIdhost=
UseOwnCharset=false
appSig=true
cursorOnTop=false
dontIncludeUA=false
externalEditor=kwrite %f
generateMId=false
incSig=false
maxLength=76
rewrap=true
useExternalEditor=false
useExternalMailer=false
wordWrap=true




Please have a look into this.

Thank you!
Comment 1 Jens 2003-08-12 16:10:49 UTC
The BTS has a B. :-)  
It cuts mails when "From ..." in one line is encountered. 
 
Here's the rest of the post, with a mangled "From" line: 
 
 From aaa@aaa Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 1997  
 X-KNode-Overview: Re: Linux 2.4.22-rc2 gmane.linux.kernel 3031  
 Message-Id: <bh8vv8$3qc$1@sea.gmane.org>  
 From: Jens Benecke <usenet@jensbenecke.de>  
 Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.22-rc2  
 Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel  
 Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 22:57:21 +0200  
 References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0308081751390.10734-100000@logos.cnet>  
 Lines: 3031  
 User-Agent: KNode/0.7.6  
 MIME-Version: 1.0  
 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="nextPart1474120.dtPh4Wnd94"  
 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit  
 X-No-Archive: Yes  
  
 --nextPart1474120.dtPh4Wnd94  
 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii  
 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit  
  
 Marcelo Tosatti wrote:  
  
 > Here goes release candidate 2.  
 > It contains yet another bunch of important fixes, detailed below.  
 > Nice weekend for all of you!  
  
 I'm having problems. had them with -pre10 as well, posted here, but th=  
 ey  
 somehow didn't appear in the list.  
  
 Here's the short story: No network (3c509) because the card gets IRQ 22=  
 (or  
 something) and doesn't like it, no USB, no firewire, no X11 (yeah, shou=  
 ld  
 have recompiled the NVIDIA drivers, duh), and a total crash on shutdown=  
  
  
 truncated here. I guess because the next line was a single dot on a line and thus got 
misinterpreted by the mail server (which should be prevented by proper encoding - at least I would 
expect this).  
  
  
 my knoderc settings for posting news:  
  
 [POSTNEWS]  
 8BitEncoding=false  
 Att_Headers=115,91,55,110,60  
 Att_Splitter=595,91  
 Charset=iso-8859-1  
 
ComposerCharsets=us-ascii,utf-8,iso-8859-1,iso-8859-2,iso-8859-3,iso-8859-4,iso-8859-5,iso-8859-6,iso-8859-7,iso-8859-8,iso-88  
 Intro=%NAME wrote:  
 MIdhost=  
 UseOwnCharset=false  
 appSig=true  
 cursorOnTop=false  
 dontIncludeUA=false  
 externalEditor=kwrite %f  
 generateMId=false  
 incSig=false  
 maxLength=76  
 rewrap=true  
 useExternalEditor=false  
 useExternalMailer=false  
 wordWrap=true  
  
  
  
  
 Please have a look into this.  
  
 Thank you! 
Comment 2 Jens 2003-08-12 21:53:54 UTC
Additional info: If you post via quoted printable with KNode, and you have a dot "." as the last 
character in one line which _just_ exceeds the colum limit, then KNode will wrap this dot, leading to a 
single dot on one line, which usually means "END of communication" for mail servers. 
 
I.E. YOUR MAIL WILL BE TRUNCATED! 
 
This can't be a feature :-) 
 
One example: You write: 
 
Here's the short story: No network (3c509) because the card gets IRQ 22 (or 
something) and doesn't like it, no USB, no firewire, no X11 (yeah, should 
have recompiled the NVIDIA drivers, duh), and a total crash on shutdown. 
 
KNode generates: 
 
Here's the short story: No network (3c509) because the card gets IRQ 22= 
 (or 
something) and doesn't like it, no USB, no firewire, no X11 (yeah, shou= 
ld 
have recompiled the NVIDIA drivers, duh), and a total crash on shutdown= 
. 
 
 
The last dot means that any NNTP->Mail gateway will TRUNCATE your mail.  
Please fix this =;) 
 
 
Thank you! 
Comment 3 Jens 2004-11-02 14:35:59 UTC
Did anybody EVER look at this?
Comment 4 Jens 2005-01-11 13:04:16 UTC
Hi,

can this bug be closed as RESOLVED, or WONTFIX? (I'd prefer the first ;)

Thank you!
Comment 5 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-04 18:34:54 UTC
Hello! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this project has been unmaintained for many years so I am closing this bug.