Subject problem

[Joseph Brennan]

--On Thursday, April 3, 2008 17:26 +0300 Nikos Gatsis <ngatsis at qbit.gr> 
wrote:

> I'm facing a strange problem.
> Every message I receive with Greek characters in subject cyrus
> "translate" them to XXXXX...
>
> Does somebody know what's going on?


It means the Subject had 8-bit characters, not encoded.  The sender's
email program should be encoding them.  The header portion of mail
is required to be 7-bit only.

Joseph Brennan
Columbia University Information Technology