Subject problem [munge8bit option provided by patch]

[Nikos Gatsis]

Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:
> Joseph Brennan <brennan at columbia.edu> wrote:
>
>   
>> --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.
>>     
>
> There are available patches that can "fix" the behavior:
>
> <quote src="/etc/imapd.conf on debian">
> # Munging illegal characters in headers
> # Headers of RFC2882 messages must not have characters with the 8th bit
> # set. However, too many badly-written MUAs generate this, including most
> # spamware. If you kept reject8bit disabled, you can choose to leave the
> # crappage untouched by disabling this (if you don't care that IMAP SEARCH
> # won't work right anymore.
> munge8bit: no
> </quote>
>
>   
I have found this option and works fine now.
This problem appears when I send a form from my webpage with php. I have 
set Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit but with no luck.
Any help?

Thank you all
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