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Ralf Fassel <ralfixx@gmx.de> writes:
> When a quoted-printable message is incorrectly terminated at EOF:
>
>     p;</td>=0A=0A        <td width=3D"49%">&nbsp;</td>=0A      </tr>=0A    </tb=
>     ody>=0A  </table>=0A</body>=0A</html>=0A=
>     --=_mixed 002D08B5C1257475_=--
>
> (missing newline before the separator) qp-decode barfs:
>
> Error: line 758: '^@' is something other than line break or hex digit after = in quoted-printable encoding
>
> and continues to read into the invalid buffer contents.
>
> IMHO, if EOF is encountered, it simply should stop processing and
> issue no error message:
>
> *** src/qp-decode.c~	Wed Feb 20 22:11:51 2008
> --- src/qp-decode.c	Mon Jun 30 12:03:41 2008
> ***************
> *** 88,93 ****
> --- 88,94 ----
>   		for (stop++; *stop && (*stop == ' ' || *stop == '\t'); stop++)
>   		    ;
>   	    } else {
> + 	      if (feof(stdin)) exit(0);
>   		fprintf(stderr, "Error: line %d: '%c' is something other than line break or hex digit after = in quoted-printable encoding\n", lineno, *stop);
>   		putchar('=');
>   		putchar(*stop);
>
>
> R'

I think I had noticed and reported a similar issue about 18 months
ago. Robert also submitted a patch which I thought was now part of the
standard VM distribution (but maybe not).

You may want to go back in the archives:
http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.vm.info/browse_thread/thread/5b30c79c9137e55a/9b1f53c459d6c915?lnk=st&q=blueman++qp-decode#
http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.vm.bug/browse_thread/thread/7b3640b3291cc9bc