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Subject:    [sylpheed:25357] Re: [PATCH] do not use US-ASCII if there are
From:       Antony Dovgal <tony2001 () phpclub ! net>
Date:       2005-07-11 9:50:43
Message-ID: 20050711135043.580d4153.tony2001 () phpclub ! net
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Could you plz resend Hiroyuki's original message to me (privately), I just want to \
test if it works with patched dspam. Thanks.

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 11:43:01 +0200
Stefaan A Eeckels <Stefaan.Eeckels@ecc.lu> wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 13:17:55 +0400
> Antony Dovgal <tony2001@phpclub.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 11:05:01 +0200
> > Stefaan A Eeckels <Stefaan.Eeckels@ecc.lu> wrote:
> > 
> > > The encoding in the Subject ensures that it doesn't contain non-ASCII
> > > characters which would violate the RFC. 
> > 
> > Right. But that's exactly what I got (i.e. non-ASCII chars in subject/headers).
> 
> That's OK - what is really there is the encoding of the non-ASCII
> characters into this: =?ISO-8859-1?B?5vjl/Ck=?=, which is ASCII.
> Nothing forces your MUA to display the above gibberish instead of
> an ISO-8859-1 series of accented characters. The RFCs only state that
> the Subject should not contain non-ASCII characters, not that they
> cannot contain some kind of ASCII-based encoding.
> 
> > But wait, I'll poke my sysadmin and his stupid DSPAM, as it seems to be their's \
> > fault.
> 
> That could well be. Display the source of Hiroyuki's original message,
> and check if the Subject line contains the gibberish above. If not, 
> use an editor to modify the original message to have the following
> Subject: line:
> 
> Subject: [sylpheed:25347] Re: [PATCH] do not use US-ASCII if there are
> non-ascii symbols in the subject (Test: =?ISO-8859-1?B?5vjl/Ck=?=
> 
> (notice the leading blanks before "non-ascii" to create a continuation).
> Then display the message in Sylpheed and it should display the accented
> characters in the Subject line.

-- 
Wbr, 
Antony Dovgal


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