Paul J Stevens wrote: > John Fawcett wrote: > >> It's likely a bug of the sending client (probably a webmail service). >> Shouldn't the from header contain only ascii encoding? >> > > That's not the point. Even if you are correct (I would assume rfc2047 > would apply to From_ headers as well), we'd like dbmail to gracefully > degrade. > Paul the encoding defined in rfc2047 applies to the word entity that precedes the address-spec, but not as part of the address spec.
i.e. From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9?= <[email protected]> is ok and is correctly visualized (thunderbird/dbmail) From: [email protected] looks broken. I have to admit I never tried to define a mailbox with an accented character in it, but I suspect that it would not work reliably. John _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.fastxs.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
