Quoting Nikos Gatsis <ngatsis@xxxxxxx>: > Andrzej Adam Filip wrote: >> 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> >> >> > 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 It's not the content but the subject-header which needs to be encoded in your case. An Example Subject: Test mit Umlauten ÄÜÖ äüö has to be send as Subject: Test mit Umlauten =?iso-8859-1?b?xNzWIA==?= =?iso-8859-1?b?5Pz2?= > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *?????? ????? - Gatsis Nikos* > Web developer > tel.: 2108256721 - 2108256722 > fax: 2108256712 > email: ngatsis@xxxxxxx > http://www.qbit.gr -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- M.Menge Tel.: (49) 7071/29-70316 Universitaet Tuebingen Fax.: (49) 7071/29-5912 Zentrum fuer Datenverarbeitung mail: michael.menge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Waechterstrasse 76 72074 Tuebingen ---- 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
