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

Peter 'Luna' Runestig peter+cyrus at runestig.com
Thu Nov 21 14:05:31 EST 2002


> This is a nice idea.  Your program does not seem to encode the equals
> sign "=" or underscore "_" in 'Q' encoded headers.  I suspect that in
> your function mlfi_eom:
> 
>   if (subj[n] & 0x80 || subj[n] == ' ' || subj[n] == '\t' || subj[n] == '?') {
> 
> should be:
> 
>   if (subj[n] & 0x80 || subj[n] == ' ' || subj[n] == '\t' || subj[n] == '?' || subj[n] == '=' || subj[n] == '_') {
> 
> Otherwise (I think) Section 4.2(3) of RFC2047 is not quite being followed.

You're right, of course, thanks! It's fixed now.

> Also, extending this milter to handle From: and To: and Cc: and so
> forth would require an RFC822 header parsing capability, so it could
> distinguish ctext, text, and word tokens within them.  I suspect that
> would significantly increase the complexity of the code.

My experience is that it's mostly the subject header that comes with 
8bit chars, so therefore I choose to deal just with it. And it makes the 
coding easier too...

Cheers,
- Peter
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