Joseph Brennan <brennan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > --On Thursday, April 3, 2008 17:26 +0300 Nikos Gatsis <ngatsis@xxxxxxx> > 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> -- [pl>en: Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip : anfi@xxxxxxxxxxxx : anfi@xxxxxxxx Open-Sendmail: http://open-sendmail.sourceforge.net/ Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy. -- Publilius Syrus ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
