Changing Cyrus to accept 8bit subjects

[Patrick T. Tsang]

Could you show me the modification and let me test them?
Thanks
P at trick



> Actually most of the users just set a default charset and everything
> works fine with them.
> I know it breaks the standard, but we have to do it.
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> Rob Siemborski wrote:
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> >On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Rayed Alrashed wrote:
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> >>I just modified my Cyrus IMAP to make it accept 8 bit subjects without
> >>changing it to the letter 'X', I changed these two files:
> >>imap/lmtpengine.c
> >>imap/message.c
> >>I tested it and it seems to work fine.
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> >>My question is this change safe? I am afraid it might break Cyrus
> >>database format.
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> >Since the messages aren't really usable anyway, the change is "safe".
> >But the messages are meaningless -- without being properly encoded with a
> >character set, 8 bit characters are just as useful as an 'X'.
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> >-Rob
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> >Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456
> >Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper
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