In hebrew emails mail scanner puts gibberish in the Subject line

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Aug 19 08:55:00 IST 2005


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This may well fix the problem.

On 16 Aug 2005, at 08:55, Julian Field wrote:

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> Does anyone have accurate knowledge of:
> What was the last version that worked properly?
> What was the first version that changed Subject: to ######## ?
>
> Without this, I can't find the problem.
>
> On 16 Aug 2005, at 03:15, Alex Neuman van der Hans wrote:
>
>
>> How do you do this in Sendmail, exactly? I've got a client who  
>> constantly
>> emails me saying "someguy at somewhere.com's mail scanning program  
>> bounced my
>> mail, why?" and the bounce always says something about violating  
>> RFC's by
>> using unquoted accented characters in the subject line. If I could  
>> get
>> sendmail to sanitize the subject lines at least it would get rid  
>> of the
>> bounces.
>>
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