Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: >> > Again, re-sending, as something in the mail (my guess is the >> > non-ASCII character in Martin's surname) seems to upset vger so >> > much that it drops the mail unceremoniously. >> >> Hmph, but in the copy I am responding to, I can see non-ASCII >> Martin's surname in the CC: header just fine, so vger may not >> be at fault, perhaps? > > You can see the non-ASCII surname fine because you are responding to my > reply, which I sent via Alpine. Ah, OK. So the difference is on the sending end and vger is merely being a coalmine canary for detectig broken sender. > So I have a theory now why vger regurgitated on that mail: it had the > unquoted name brian m. carlson in the Cc: line. Ah, yes, I used to get that when sending out my messages, as Gnus/message mode lets me write any garbage on To: or Cc: line ;-)