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

[Bruce Campbell]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, 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.

Headers preferably should not contain 8bit data (un-encoded), for fear of
causing certain not-mentioned MTAs much grief, but MTAs should be able to
_accept_ 8bit headers.

( Be conservative in what you send, liberal in what you accept ).

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                             Bruce Campbell                            RIPE
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