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Posted to dev@spamassassin.apache.org by bu...@bugzilla.spamassassin.org on 2014/12/18 01:30:23 UTC

[Bug 7073] Oddly-formed MIME-Version header prevents base64 decoding

https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7073

Mark Martinec <Ma...@ijs.si> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX

--- Comment #10 from Mark Martinec <Ma...@ijs.si> ---
(In reply to Mark Martinec from comment #1)
> The header section is supposed to end by an empty line - but, like several
> other mail message parsers, SpamAssassin also considers a header to end
> when a header field starting with '---' is encountered. This is not strictly
> correct, but on the other hand avoids a case where a separator line is
> missing and an entire message body is thus considered part of a header,
> and a body would then be considered empty.
> [...]
> So, garbage-in, garbage-out. Fixing one case would break the other.

Tentatively closing as WONTFIX.
Please re-open if disagreeing.

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