In hebrew emails mail scanner puts gibberish in the Subject line

[Yossi Mor]

Julian good morning,

Thank you for the patch i will try it at the beginning of the next week.

I got few questions related to the patch:

1. Which version of MailScanner should i try the patch?
2. Just to make it clear - the patch should be copied 
to /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner ?
3. Is there a special command to apply the patch or just 'tar -zxvf' and 
copy it to the location specified above?

If that is ok with you i can send you an email in Hebrew from my home 
account to try in advance the work around and get your feedback. What do 
you think?

May i suggest an improvement to the MailScanner. I think that 
MailScanner.conf should contain sections to control the Unicode of the 
subject line and the email body. If this functionality can be added, I 
think that it gain a better control to admin to adjust the Unicode of 
incoming emails to avoid such cases.

Kindly regards,

Yossi Mor


On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 08:55:00 +0100, Julian Field 
<MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:

>Please try out the attached short patch for Message.pm.
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>> * PGP Signed: 08/16/05 at 08:55:20
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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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