[xine-devel] attention KMail users: SF breaks quoted-printable

[Siggi (SourceForge) <si...@us...>]

Hi Folks,

I'm recently getting quite a few unreadable mails via SourceForge mailing
lists. Most of them are produced by KMail, and what happens is this:

KMail (or maybe another mailer) encodes the message with
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
so any special characters are replaced by an "=XX" escape, where XX is the
hex code of the character.

The problem is that Sourceforge adds advertisements to the messages, which
contain URLs like

http://some.where.com/foobar.cgi?option=sourceforge
                                       ^^^

And the "=so" in that example is not a valid "quoted-printable" escape.

Pine usually totally refuses to display such messages, but I guess that
other MUAs have similar problems.

I've already filed an urgent support request about this, but it seems the
SF people won't act quickly. So: if possible, please configure your
mailers not to use the "quoted-printable" transfer encoding, but rather
something like 8bit SMTP (if your mail server supports that) or MIME.

Thanks,
	Siggi