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Some base64 subject and other header decoding is bad in webmail
Problem reported by They Call Me Matt - 10/12/2018 at 11:44 AM
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Some base64 encoding of Subjects, From and To fields, and possibly others that display in webmail summary lists and actual email display are not functioning properly.  The encoding looks to be proper, and I have confirmed that at least Thunderbird has no problems with the encoding while webmail does.  Webmail is inserting a ";" where line breaks in the encoding appear, but these should not be characters at all.

This is an example of the encoding:

Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?B?Y2xvc2Ugcw==?=
    =?ISO-8859-1?B?dGF0ZW1lbnQg?=
    =?ISO-8859-1?B?Zm9yIDE5IEVM?=
    =?ISO-8859-1?B?SVpBQkVUSCBM?=
    =?ISO-8859-1?B?TiAxMC8xMi8y?=
    =?ISO-8859-1?B?MDE4IDEyOjIz?=
To: "=?ISO-8859-1?B?VGFtYXJhIHZhbGVu?=
    =?ISO-8859-1?B?dGluZQ==?="
    <tvalentine@example.com>

This is what it displays:

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Scarab Replied
Matthew,

Are you running 16.3.6855 by chance? It sounds to me like a related issue to the "Fixed: Certain Base64 encoded message parts are not getting RFC line breaks causing 550 Line too long errors".

Fix one thing and inadvertently break another...if you are on 16.3.6855 you might want to open a Support Ticket for this one as it is clearly a bug/unintended feature.

If you aren't on 16.3.6855 try upgrading to see if it resolves the issue.
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They Call Me Matt Replied
Good catch.  The most recent patch was planned for an install tonight.  I'll check on this issue after I do that, but it looks very promising.
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Andrea Free Replied
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Hi Matthew,

Have you encountered this issue while running SmarterMail 16.3.6855? 
Andrea Free SmarterTools Inc. 877-357-6278 www.smartertools.com

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