[Mailman-Users] mailman 2.1.5 subject line problem

[Rimgaudas Laucius]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Sapiro" <msapiro at value.net>
To: "Rimgaudas Laucius" <rimga at ktl.mii.lt>; <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 6:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] mailman 2.1.5 subject line problem


> Rimgaudas Laucius wrote:
> >
> >i installed mailman 2.1.5 on Linux (rh9).
> >The problem is with letters where are used national characters (8 bit
> >[#128..#255] from baltic cp Windows 1257 or ISOxxxx-13) in subject line.
> >Mailman does not pass such letters (discards them without any message).
> >Earlier version (2.0.14) had not such problem.
> >
> 
> I understand your problem, but the real problem is with your MUA that
> creates a message with characters outside the [#1..#127] range in the
> subject.
> 
> RFC2822 section 2.2 says in part:
> 
>   Header fields are lines composed of a field name, followed by a colon
>   (":"), followed by a field body, and terminated by CRLF.  A field
>   name MUST be composed of printable US-ASCII characters (i.e.,
>   characters that have values between 33 and 126, inclusive), except
>   colon.
> 
> RFC822 uses different language but also restricts the characters to the
> printable US-ASCII range.
> 
> RFC2047 provides a method for encoding characters outside this range
> into message headers using either base64 or quoted-printable encoding.
> This gives headers that look for example like:
> 
>   Subject: =?iso-8859-13?q?Subject= with= =c0= Baltic= character?=
> 
> Of course, there are major problems because not all MUAs create headers
> in this way  and not all MUAs understand them, but this isn't really a
> Mailman issue.
> 
> --
> Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan



We have tested source text of the message sent from our MUA. The subject 
field was

=?windows-1257?Q?=E0=FEe=E1=F8=EB=E6=FB?=

So, all characters in ASCII and this mesaage did not go through Mailman. So the problem is not in MUA.