Re: Subject problem [munge8bit option provided by patch]

From: Nikos Gatsis (no email)
Date: Fri Apr 04 2008 - 08:50:09 EDT

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    Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:
    > 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>
    >
    >
    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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