How to make cyrus not change non US-ASCII characters to "X"

Lawrence Greenfield leg+ at andrew.cmu.edu
Thu Nov 21 16:34:11 EST 2002


--On Thursday, November 21, 2002 1:26 PM -0200 Alessandro Oliveira 
<alessandro.o at nunoferreira.com.br> wrote:

> Is there any possibility to put this as an autoconf option?
>
> maybe something like: "./configure --enable-strict-headers |
> --disable-strict-headers" would do the trick, or even better, a runtime
> configuration option !!!
>
> what are the REAL consequences of having 8bit characters in the Subject
> header ?

Accepting these messages cause Cyrus to later break IMAP4 by sending 
untagged 8-bit data that can't be correctly interpreted by the client. Most 
clients deal by having a "default" character set.

Larry






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