Umlauts -> X in subjects? äüö

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am Mittwoch, 23. November 2005 10:47 schrieb Thorsten Schnebeck:
> Am Dienstag 22 November 2005 21:20 schrieb Bernhard Reiter:
> > In the real work, clients will encode the umlauts in the
> > subjects in a 7bit representative.
>
> No, thats the ideal world

My mail user agent and many others do encode this
(as you can see from this email), and this is a real world email.

> > > So, how can I config the system to get rid of stuff like
> > >
> > > X-Amavis-Alert: BAD HEADER Non-encoded 8-bit data (char E4
> > > hex) in message header 'Subject': Subject:
> > > Reservierungsbest\344tigung\n Subject:
> > > ReservierungsbestXtigung
> >
> > I don't know, it would be better to fix the clients.
>
> I think this is a mail robot. And I dont want to post every car
> rental in Germany that there auto mailer is not RFC conform when
> it works with Outlook. ;-)

But you should.
If you think it through, then building a workaround for each non-standard 
conforming product then it will hurt the medium a lot.

> Does Kolabs Cyrus server use this munge8bit patch/option?
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80630

AFAIK it does not,
but also this is mainly is an upstream debate.

Bernhard