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I've encountered problems receiving FluxBB's e-mails on several GMX accounts.

Looking at the e-mail's source showed that GMX uses SpamAssassin to detect spam and in particular the rule "FROM_EXCESS_BASE64" seemed to be responsible for a 5+ spam rating.

http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/Rul … ESS_BASE64

The rule fires when you base64 encode parts of the e-mail header even when there is no reason to do so.

FluxBB encodes "from", "subject" and "receiver", independent of their character encoding: https://github.com/fluxbb/fluxbb/blob/m … il.php#L65

There are two solutions to this:

1. Only base64encode when there are UTF8 chars
2. Q-Encode this strings

Because PHP doesn't provide a function to q-encode strings, I decided to go for the first solution:

//
// Only encode with base64, if there is at least one unicode character in the string
//
function encode_mail_text($str)
{
    if (preg_match_all('/[\000-\010\013\014\016-\037\177-\377]/', $str, $matches))
        $str = "=?UTF-8?B?".base64_encode($str)."?=";
    
    return $str;
}

Then replace line 65 and 66 in email.php:

$from = encode_mail_text($from_name).' <'.$from_email.'>';
    $subject = encode_mail_text($subject);

and line 73:

$reply_to = encode_mail_text($reply_to_name).' <'.$reply_to_email.'>';

This code is tested and works quite well, but my eclipse-git client won't let me commit this piece of code.

So please review and commit.