[Mailman-Users] Email subscribe interface and QP encoding

[Rosenbaum, Larry M.]

I have submitted this as Bug 1829061.

> Rosenbaum, Larry M. wrote:
>
> >If I send an email from Outlook to the listname-request address with
> this line:
> >
> >subscribe address=test2 at ornl.gov
> >
> >I get back the following result:
> >
> >Your authorization is required for a mailing list subscription request
> >approval:
> >
> >    For:  3Dtest2 at ornl.gov
> >...
> >
> >Notice the "3D" in front of the original address.  It looks like
> Mailman isn't decoding the quoted-printable encoding before parsing the
> message body.  Why is that?  Should I file a bug report?
>
>
> It looks like you are correct. It is apparently an oversight. I'll fix
> it without the report, but it is always good to have the report in the
> tracker for the next person that finds the bug.
>
>
> >(Note: when I sent the message from Outlook, I forced it to "plain
> text")
>
>
> Does Outlook have an option to use 8bit encoding rather than QP, and

Not that I know of.

> why is it QP encoding a message that appears to not have any 8bit
> characters?

I don't know, but probably because it's Outlook.