Sieve and encoded Headers

Ken Murchison murch at andrew.cmu.edu
Fri Feb 12 10:18:02 EST 2010



Bron Gondwana wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 11:29:22AM -0500, Ken Murchison wrote:
>>
>> Bron Gondwana wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 07:53:21AM +0100, Garry wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> after wondering for a while why occasionally my sieve script rules
>>>> wouldn't work, I just found the reason (I guess) - Sieve doesn't
>>>> (correctly?) decode utf encoded header lines which e.g. are in a format
>>>> like this:
>>>>
>>>> Subject: =?utf-8?B?W0xPR10gV2F0Y2hsaXN0OiBzbWVhZ29sIGZvdW5kIEdydcOfIGF1cyBkZXIgVW50ZXJ3ZWx0IChVbmtub3duIENhY2hlKQ==?=
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm using version: "Cyrus timsieved v2.2.13-Debian-2.2.13-19" ... is it
>>>> something that is fixed in a newer version? I tried finding something on
>>>> the net, but at least the first couple of results pages didn't yield any
>>>> insight ...
>>> No - it's not fixed in any released version.  It is fixed in the FastMail
>>> Cyrus patches - but it's a very invasive change to the charset encoding,
>>> so it's been kept out of the stable line for now.
>>>
>>> I've CC'd Ken on this - I wonder if it's worth going back and doing a
>>> "minimal still compatible" set of patches that fixes charset encoding in
>>> sieve without actually changing the on disk format of the cyrus.cache
>> It might be worth doing this for 2.3.
> 
> Done!  I've put lots of testing in to it too :)  Added to the
> cyrus-imapd-2_3-tail branch.

Are you planning on re-comitting your charset changes to 2.4 soon?

-- 
Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Carnegie Mellon University


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