diff --git a/mailinfo.c b/mailinfo.c
index 5681d9130d..dcf579700d 100644
--- a/mailinfo.c
+++ b/mailinfo.c
@@ -994,6 +994,11 @@ static void handle_filter_flowed(struct mailinfo *mi, struct strbuf *line,
 	const char *rest;
 
 	if (!mi->format_flowed) {
+		if (len >= 2 &&
+		    line->buf[len - 2] == '\r' &&
+		    line->buf[len - 1] == '\n') {
+			mi->have_quoted_cr = 1;
+		}
 		handle_filter(mi, line);
 		return;
 	}
@@ -1033,6 +1038,12 @@ static void handle_filter_flowed(struct mailinfo *mi, struct strbuf *line,
 	handle_filter(mi, line);
 }
 
+static void summarize_quoted_cr(struct mailinfo *mi)
+{
+	if (mi->have_quoted_cr)
+		warning("quoted CR detected");
+}
+
 static void handle_body(struct mailinfo *mi, struct strbuf *line)
 {
 	struct strbuf prev = STRBUF_INIT;
@@ -1051,6 +1062,8 @@ static void handle_body(struct mailinfo *mi, struct strbuf *line)
 				handle_filter(mi, &prev);
 				strbuf_reset(&prev);
 			}
+			summarize_quoted_cr(mi);
+			mi->have_quoted_cr = 0;
 			if (!handle_boundary(mi, line))
 				goto handle_body_out;
 		}
@@ -1100,6 +1113,7 @@ static void handle_body(struct mailinfo *mi, struct strbuf *line)
 
 	if (prev.len)
 		handle_filter(mi, &prev);
+	summarize_quoted_cr(mi);
 
 	flush_inbody_header_accum(mi);
 
diff --git a/mailinfo.h b/mailinfo.h
index 79b1d6774e..b394ef9bce 100644
--- a/mailinfo.h
+++ b/mailinfo.h
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ struct mailinfo {
 	struct strbuf charset;
 	unsigned int format_flowed:1;
 	unsigned int delsp:1;
+	unsigned int have_quoted_cr:1;
 	char *message_id;
 	enum  {
 		TE_DONTCARE, TE_QP, TE_BASE64
diff --git a/t/t5100-mailinfo.sh b/t/t5100-mailinfo.sh
index 147e616533..c7ea1b30df 100755
--- a/t/t5100-mailinfo.sh
+++ b/t/t5100-mailinfo.sh
@@ -228,4 +228,19 @@ test_expect_success 'mailinfo handles unusual header whitespace' '
 	test_cmp expect actual
 '
 
+check_quoted_cr_mail () {
+	git mailinfo -u "$@" quoted-cr-msg quoted-cr-patch \
+		<"$DATA/quoted-cr.mbox" >quoted-cr-info 2>quoted-cr-err &&
+	test_cmp "expect-cr-msg" quoted-cr-msg &&
+	test_cmp "expect-cr-patch" quoted-cr-patch &&
+	test_cmp "$DATA/quoted-cr-info" quoted-cr-info
+}
+
+test_expect_success 'mailinfo warn CR in base64 encoded email' '
+	sed "s/%%/$(printf \\015)/" "$DATA/quoted-cr-msg" >expect-cr-msg &&
+	sed "s/%%/$(printf \\015)/" "$DATA/quoted-cr-patch" >expect-cr-patch &&
+	check_quoted_cr_mail &&
+	grep "quoted CR detected" quoted-cr-err
+'
+
 test_done
diff --git a/t/t5100/quoted-cr-info b/t/t5100/quoted-cr-info
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..dab2228b70
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t5100/quoted-cr-info
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Author: A U Thor
+Email: mail@example.com
+Subject: sample
+Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 22:40:55 +0700
+
diff --git a/t/t5100/quoted-cr-msg b/t/t5100/quoted-cr-msg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a148bc7e26
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t5100/quoted-cr-msg
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+On different distro, pytest is suffixed with different patterns.%%
+%%
diff --git a/t/t5100/quoted-cr-patch b/t/t5100/quoted-cr-patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..580e2bddb8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t5100/quoted-cr-patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+---%%
+ configure | 2 +-%%
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)%%
+%%
+diff --git a/configure b/configure%%
+index db3538b3..f7c1c095 100755%%
+--- a/configure%%
++++ b/configure%%
+@@ -814,7 +814,7 @@ if [ $have_python3 -eq 1 ]; then%%
+     printf "Checking for python3 pytest (>= 3.0)... "%%
+     conf=$(mktemp)%%
+     printf "[pytest]\nminversion=3.0\n" > $conf%%
+-    if pytest-3 -c $conf --version >/dev/null 2>&1; then%%
++    if "$python" -m pytest -c $conf --version >/dev/null 2>&1; then%%
+         printf "Yes.\n"%%
+         have_python3_pytest=1%%
+     else%%
+-- %%
+2.28.0%%
+_______________________________________________
+example mailing list -- list@example.org
+To unsubscribe send an email to list-leave@example.org
diff --git a/t/t5100/quoted-cr.mbox b/t/t5100/quoted-cr.mbox
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6ea9806a6b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t5100/quoted-cr.mbox
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+From: A U Thor <mail@example.com>
+To: list@example.org
+Subject: [PATCH v2] sample
+Date: Mon,  3 Aug 2020 22:40:55 +0700
+Message-Id: <msg-id@example.com>
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
+
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