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

[Jon (spamtrap)]

> New and alternate analysis;  bbb received the item from mannheim, and
> did /not/ start putting in = chars, but instead passed the item on to
> Jon's server's MS Exchange for OL.  Then Jon and/or OL or maybe even
> Exchange did something that caused = chars to get introduced into the
> headers.  Since the char is in the 2nd down traceline, it had to be
> introduced after backupmx.bbb.co.uk.  When Jon posted the item showing
> the = chars, for some reason he excluded the top traceline;  but I
> suspect it is in there as well.

Nope, the headers and body are extracted from the received spam in Outlook
without continuation characters. The = symbol is added by the use of VBA to
resend the spam items in a message from me to Spamcop. So, it is not Outlook
/per se/ that does this, it's the Microsoft MAPI module, which I imagine
would behave in exactly the same way if I accessed it from VB or any other
language.

I might be able to play around with the attributes in a MAPI.Message to see
if I can get rid of the continuation chars. Anyone know what a quoted
printable MIME message ought to look like? Should it not have continuation
characters at all?

Thanks folks

Jon