[SpamCop-List] Re: OE bugs again [was: Quick reporting bug again [heads up Ellen/Admins]]

[Mike Easter]

Frank Ellermann wrote:
Subject: OE bugs again

Not OE Outlook Express;  but OL Outlook.  OE doesn't do that.  OE may
have a lot of its own non-compliances, but it handles and stores and
forwards as attachment email headers appropriately.

The only way I can think of that it/OE could be 'induced' to insert such
behavior is if you put email headers into the *body* of a message and
then coded the plaintext sending format to OE's strange form of Quoted
Printable.

> Jon (spamtrap) wrote:
>>> Received: from [...] by MAIL.bb=
>>> b.co.uk

> Odd.  You're not supposed to use QP (quoted printable) in the
> header of a message/rfc822.

Perhaps the chars were introduced when Jon mailed the item.  I think
even OL maintains a proper copy of the original headers even tho' it
mangles up the body into a MAPI-ized mishmash which it has to de-mapi
into its own non-original condition when called upon.

People who handle spam and submit it to spamcop or abuse desks with OL
have to expect a lot of surprises, unless they have a new enough OL
which enables them to configure their registry so as to save the
original non-mapi/ed mail.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin