[Mailman-Users] encoding errors

Thu Apr 14 04:03:35 CEST 2005

On 4/13/05 8:20 PM, Brad Knowles at brad at stop.mail-abuse.org wrote:

> At 6:14 PM -0700 2005-04-13, Heather Madrone wrote:
> 
>>  Does anyone know why there are so many encoding errors with posts to this
>>  list?
> 
> Encoding errors?  What do you mean?

I think she means this:
[Error: Formatting error: Non-hexadecimal character in QP encoding]
which I see in many list messages when logged into the shell on my computer
and reading with pine (pine 4.58 running on MacOS X 10.3.8; for
completeness, the MTA is whatever version of postfix came with Mac OS X
10.3). I saw it in a message tonight:

Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 18:22:26 -0500
From: Jess Mooers <jmooers at landmannassoc.com>
To: Mailman Users List <mailman-users at python.org>
Subject: [Mailman-Users] MailMan Not Sending
...
W 608-257-1558 F 608-257-8705
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   [Error: Formatting error: Non-hexadecimal character in QP encoding]

Note in this case, it displayed into the mailman-users footer although I've
seen it much earlier in a message. I see this frequently (a few times a
week) and always and only in mailman-users messages. I hexdumped my mail box
and saw nothing interesting but have included the section that includes that
where pine complained below. Maybe someone else can see something of
interest there.

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