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Gobbledegook email headers
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Bogof_Babe
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Why do some of my emails have headers like this:
?utf-8?b?TW9ydGdhZ2VzIFNldCBUbyBHZXQgQ2hlYXBlciB8IFdoZXJl4oCZcyBNeSBLYXVwdGhpbmcgQ2FzaD8=?=
which was on a Motley Fool one received today. I had similar on one of the MSE weekly emails recently too, and there have been others.
Interested to know if this is a general problem generated by the sender, or if my machine is scrambling it in some way. The email contents are perfectly normal, it's just the headers that are gibberish.
Edit: I have no idea why pasting that example caused the subsequent font to be so small - sorry.
?utf-8?b?TW9ydGdhZ2VzIFNldCBUbyBHZXQgQ2hlYXBlciB8IFdoZXJl4oCZcyBNeSBLYXVwdGhpbmcgQ2FzaD8=?=
which was on a Motley Fool one received today. I had similar on one of the MSE weekly emails recently too, and there have been others.
Interested to know if this is a general problem generated by the sender, or if my machine is scrambling it in some way. The email contents are perfectly normal, it's just the headers that are gibberish.
Edit: I have no idea why pasting that example caused the subsequent font to be so small - sorry.
I haven't bogged off yet, and I ain't no babe
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You have partly answered your own question re the font, that header tells the email prog how the text is coded
Do a WIKI on utf-80 -
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:RH95m9Ws2FMJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8+utf-8&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1
Blimey that is much too complicated for me, but I'm sure it answers my question! Thanks for that, I'm sure it makes perfect sense to a techie. I haven't bogged off yet, and I ain't no babe
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