In hebrew emails mail scanner puts gibberish in the Subject line

[Julian Field]

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On 19 Aug 2005, at 09:29, Yossi Mor wrote:

> 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?

On any version that has the subroutine mentioned in 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?

No. You need to learn how to use "patch".

Copy the Message.pm.patch.gz to /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/
gunzip Message.pm.patch.gz
patch < Message.pm.patch

The restart MailScanner as long as the patch command succeeded.

> 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?

I haven't implemented the patch on my own systems, so I suggest you  
send the mail to yourself.

> 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.

I am not sure that RFC822 and RFC2822 allow Unicode in subject lines.


>
> 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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>> This may well fix the problem.
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>> On 16 Aug 2005, at 08:55, Julian Field wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> Old Signed: 08/16/05 at 08:55:20
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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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