[rt-devel] Still problems with non-ascii subjects

[Dmitry Sivachenko]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 05:52:12PM +1000, Phil Homewood wrote:
> Dmitry Sivachenko wrote:
> > 1) If Subject contains non-ascii characters and is plain 8bit, it
> > becomes '?????' after RT processing (both at WebUI and in e-mail RT resends
> > to subscribers).  According to RT logs, encoding is determined correctly by
> > Encode::Guess.  The affected e-mail can be found at
> > http://mitya.pp.ru/rt-bad-email1.dat
> 
> Are headers allowed to contain 8bit data? My recollection, and
> reading of RFC 822 and RFC 2047, gives me the impression that
> they're not.
> 
> Note, also, that SpamAssassin also flags that subject as "illegal".

Standards are much simpler than real life ;-((
There are many MUAs that send 8bit data in headers.
Think of standard UNIX mail(1) for instance.