Re: [Nmh-workers] Microsoft hockeyapp doesn't care about 2045 RFC (6.4)

[Ken Hornstein]

>I wish you were a betting man.  ;-)

Ha!  Well, I am glad to eat crow in this case!

>And Laura and I heard back from Thomas Dohmke, HockeyApp's co-founder,
>today saying a fix had been deployed.  He's also keen to find out where
>Laura hit a wall so he can get a route created through Microsoft's
>defences to the HockeyApp team in future.

I don't always give up ... I AM trying hard to get another vendor to
fix their email.  The vendor in this case is called Mellow (they make
a long-delayed sous vide machine), but their particular bug is that
their account registration email is sent as a base64-encoded text/html
part (which SHOULD be fine) but rather than break the base64 encoding
at the recommended 76 characters, it's all sent as one line and so an
intervening SMTP server is breaking the line at approximately 1024
characters and inserting a ! character, which ends up breaking the
base64 encoding.  My first couple of emails with them were very polite,
but my last email yesterday (after they sent me an email which said,
"Well, we couldn't figure out the problem, can you use Facebook to login
instead?") was ... well, I edited it a number of times and waited 6
hours to send it.  At least there was no profanity.

If anyone has a back-channel into Mellow, please let me know!

--Ken