Re: Subject problem [munge8bit option provided by patch]

From: Andrzej Adam Filip (no email)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2008 - 12:14:45 EDT

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    Joseph Brennan <> wrote:

    > --On Thursday, April 3, 2008 17:26 +0300 Nikos Gatsis <>
    > 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>

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