Bug 4998 – Gateway: Non-ascii subjects need to be encoded

Bug 4998 - Gateway: Non-ascii subjects need to be encoded

Summary:

Gateway: Non-ascii subjects need to be encoded

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Product:	lists.slimdevices.com
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Email
Version:	unspecified
Platform:	All All

Importance:	P2 normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	next update
Assigned To:	Matt Wise

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Reported:	2007-05-12 06:11 UTC by Marc Sherman
Modified:	2013-05-17 15:34 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Marc Sherman 2007-05-12 06:11:28 UTC

The forum->mail gateway needs to encode Subjects with non-ascii characters. For example, the recent thread "Re: Transporter. “Boom” at power on/off." has been consistently spam-binned on my server because of the unencoded non-ascii quote characters in the subject.

RFC2822 only allows ascii characters in message headers. RFC2047 should be used to encode subjects that have characters outside that range: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2047.html