Cyrus 2.2?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 09 May 2003, Christian Schulte wrote:
> >And since nobody of the people who constantly ask for it stepped ahead
> >to write the patch that does the header encodingbased on a admin-supplied 
> >default charset...
> >
> What do you mean should that patch do exactly ? Do you mean that if an 
> email does not specify an encoding it should automatically set an 

if a *header*...

> encoding which can be specified in imapd.conf ? So there would be no 

yes. And re-encode that header, so that it is now 7bit.

> actual mail-translation or anything like that ? Only if the encoding is 
> _not_ specified cyrus will set it to a default and leaves the mail 

Only if a X would be needed (or the email would be rejected), is the
header re-encoded.

> untouched otherwise ? What email-headers are you talking about exactly ? 

Read RFC 2047.  Some headers can be encoded to have 8bit data (encoded as 7
bit).  Headers that cannot be encoded should be mangled, or the message
rejected.

IMHO the functionality should be like this:

[We detect a header has 8bit data]
  IF header-can-be-RFC2047-encoded AND
     default header encoding charset is set THEN reencode it
  ELSE
     mangle it to X or reject message, as usual.

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