Subject: non-hexadecimal character in QP encoding -- error exporting

From: Matt Ackeret <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 18:15:28 -0700 (PDT)

In trying to export a bunch of messages, I get:
          [Formatting error: Non-hexadecimal character in QP encoding]

Is there any reasonable way to narrow down on which item is causing it,
and/or did it export everything ELSE?  I don't think so, but want to make
sure.

Unfortunately this is the continuing story of someone spamming in my
name (actually, the worst happened over 4-5 days, I'm still sending
the few bounces I'm getting to one ISP who was interested in trying to
find them and prosecute them though)..  anyway, so I can't really look at
the exported file and find out easily which item it was... since they're
almost all the same.

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From: Alessandro Selli <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 13:06:20 +0200 (CEST)

Il giorno Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Matt Ackeret così ha scritto:

|From: Matt Ackeret <[email-masked]>
|To: Pine Discussion Forum <[email-masked]>
|Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 18:15:28 -0700
|Subject: non-hexadecimal character in QP encoding -- error exporting
|
|
|In trying to export a bunch of messages, I get:
|          [Formatting error: Non-hexadecimal character in QP encoding]
|
|Is there any reasonable way to narrow down on which item is causing it,
|and/or did it export everything ELSE?  I don't think so, but want to make
|sure.
|

  I had the same problem as you.  I can guess it was caused by a wrong "Quoted
Printable" encoding by some software that those spammers were using.

  Sandro

-- 
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       La guerra nutre se stessa

Livio, Ab urbe condita, XXXIV,9

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From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:59:09 -0700 (PDT)

*** Matt Ackeret ([email-masked]) wrote in the pine-info list on...:

:) In trying to export a bunch of messages, I get:
:)           [Formatting error: Non-hexadecimal character in QP encoding]
:)
:) Is there any reasonable way to narrow down on which item is causing it,
:) and/or did it export everything ELSE?  I don't think so, but want to
:) make sure.

Pine4.50 will have a feature that will show you the full text of the
message. Normally the problems happens because of the following conditions

- The message was encoded in quoted printable (QP)
- and there is an equal sign "=" which was not encoded.

Normally you use QP to encode 8 bit characters, not characters that are 7
bits, so the "=" did not get encoded, which caused Pine to quit decoding,
and therefore not printing the message to the screen. I have a patch that
will ignore this error and print the message to the screen anyway, and the
result has always been more than reasonable, so now you can read your
SPAm if you like to :)

-- 
Eduardo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/

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From: Alessandro Selli <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:36:35 +0200 (CEST)

Il giorno Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Eduardo Chappa così ha scritto:

|From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
|To: Pine Discussion Forum <[email-masked]>
|Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:59:09 -0700
|Subject: Re: non-hexadecimal character in QP encoding -- error exporting
|

[...]

| I have a patch that
|will ignore this error and print the message to the screen anyway, and the
|result has always been more than reasonable,

  This is good news!

| so now you can read your
|SPAm if you like to :)
|

  This is not such good news...

  :-)

  Sandro