Encoded e-mail has duplicate periods (‘.’)

  • deeveedee

    (@deeveedee)


    8 years, 11 months ago

    I have observed this behavior twice and am not sure how to reproduce it, since it has happened on its own. A period (‘.’) in the body of an order notification (plain text, not html) sent by WooCommerce (sent via Postman SMTP Plugin) is duplicated when Postman SMTP encodes the e-mail for sending.

    From the Postman SMTP Email log:

    In the sent e-mail viewer:
    @hotmail.com

    In the session transcript:

    @hotmail=
..com=0A=0A-

    Note that the duplicate periods (‘.’) happen when the string in the encoded e-mail is wrapped on two lines.

    My environment is as follows:

    • WordPress 4.7.5
    • Postman SMTP 1.7.2
    • WooCommerce 3.0.8 (also observed with WooCommerce 2.6.14)
    • This topic was modified 8 years, 11 months ago by deeveedee.
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  • Thread Starter deeveedee

    (@deeveedee)

    8 years, 11 months ago

    Just encounted the same error with a different string.

    In the sent e-mail viewer:
    $1.00

    In the session transcript:

    $1=
..00

    Again, the duplicate periods occur when the period/decimal (‘.’) is wrapped to the next line in the encoded e-mail message.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 11 months ago by deeveedee.
    Thread Starter deeveedee

    (@deeveedee)

    8 years, 11 months ago

    Just saw this same error again during testing after updating to WordPress 4.8. The problem occurs much more frequently after updating from WooCommerce 2.6.14 to 3.0.8.

    Thread Starter deeveedee

    (@deeveedee)

    8 years, 10 months ago

    After observing this again, I have determined that this is a repeatable behavior that occurs whenever the encoded e-mail wraps to a new line. Is this a bug in Postman SMTP? Is it normal to expect a ‘.’ to be encoded as ‘..’ when the line is wrapped (as in the example below)? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

    Sent e-mail viewer:

    
@hotmail.com

    Session Transcript:

    
@hotmail=
..com=0A=0A
    Thread Starter deeveedee

    (@deeveedee)

    8 years, 9 months ago

    Any suggestions? Still observing this.

    Thank you.

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