Changing Cyrus to accept 8bit subjects

[Rob Siemborski]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Rayed Alrashed wrote:

> 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.
>
> My question is this change safe? I am afraid it might break Cyrus
> database format.

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'.

-Rob

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