[SpamCop-List] Re: Continued Encoded Subject Gags Parser

[Brian (SnSR)]

32123 wrote:
> When a spam subject line is encoded and
> continued without a leading space on the
> continuation line, the parser cannot
> handle it.
> 
> (Example in spamcop.spam with same subject.)
> 
> It seems that the parser should be upgraded
> just slightly so that header continuation
> lines do not need the leading gap if and
> only if the line break occurs inside an
> encoding of the form =?[^?]*?[BQ]?[^?]*?=
> 
> Here is the example subject header:
> 
> Subject: =?Windows-1251?B?KCDPcO70ZWPx6O7t4Ov87fvlIPDgY/H76+roICkgzeD26P8sIOru8u7w4P8g7O7m
> ?=
>  =?Windows-1251?B?5fIg6CDk7uvm7eAg4fvy/CDx7+Dx5e3gIO7k7ejsLeXk6O3x8uLl7e377CD35evu
> ?=
>  =?Windows-1251?B?4uXq7uwsIO3lIOfg8evz5uji4OXyIO/u+eDk+y4gL8guIMfl6ezlLw==
> ?=
> 
> Note that only the line breaks inside the
> encodings omit the otherwise-required
> leading whitespace on the following line.
> 
> The parser should be fixed to parse these.
> 
> HTH
> 

I'm not sure where the parser broke down for you. I pasted your spam 
into the parser and didn't see the problem, but it was using what you 
supplied, not the original. Do you have a tracker to share with us?