In hebrew emails mail scanner puts gibberish in the Subject line

[Yossi Mor]

Julian Good morning,

It seems that the patch did not resolve the issue.
I have also tried to use Message.pm from older version of MailScanner 
(4.32.5-1) but MAilScanner service failed to restart.

Is there any valuable information that i can provide you in order to 
escalate the issue? 

I am going to to examine several recipients that receive those gibberish 
emails. Is there any info that i can provide from that point (Unicode)?

Regards,

Yossi


On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:14:01 +0100, Julian Field 
<MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK> wrote:

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