Changing Cyrus to accept 8bit subjects

[Rayed Alrashed]

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.


Rob Siemborski wrote:

>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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