In hebrew emails mail scanner puts gibberish in the Subject line

Mon Aug 22 17:54:08 IST 2005

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It will be in the next release.

yossi mor wrote:

> 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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