In hebrew emails mail scanner puts gibberish in the Subject line

[yossi mor]

Hi Julian,

Good News !!!

It seems that the patch solved the problem. I made some testing on the 
customer site and everything looks OK. Many Many thanks.

When you intend to integrate the fix? and on which MailScanner version?

Again Tnx alot :)

Yossi


>From: Julian Field <MailScanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
>Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: In hebrew emails mail scanner puts gibberish in the Subject 
>line
>Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:14:01 +0100
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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.
> >>
> >> 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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