Hi Ulrich, I have to leave this one to you as well. I don't think VM should fall down just because it gets messages with 8-bit headers, but I don't have any samples to work with.
Cheers, Uday Manoj writes: > Public bug reported: > > This was reported by a Debian user. > > RFCs are all good and well -- better still is the old policy of > 'being conservative in what you send and liberal in what you accept'. > > Some mailers are broken, and we have to deal with it. I do get mail with > either 'Umnlaut' 8-bit chars country or with 'Accents' over vowels, and > these > _break_ vm if they appear in From: or Subject:. VM then refuses to work with > mailboxen containing these and I have to manually clean the mailbox (via, > say, mutt) and restart emacs. Royal pain. > > How about VM refusing to accept such mails to at least not break > folders? > > ** Affects: vm > Importance: Undecided > Status: New > > ** Affects: vm (Debian) > Importance: Unknown > Status: Unknown > > ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #551480 > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=551480 > > ** Also affects: vm (Debian) via > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=551480 > Importance: Unknown > Status: Unknown > > -- > vm: vm cannot cope with 8-bit headers > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/490029 > You received this bug notification because you are a member of VM > development team, which is the registrant for vm. > > Status in VM (View Mail) for Emacs: New > Status in “vm” package in Debian: Unknown > > Bug description: > This was reported by a Debian user. > > RFCs are all good and well -- better still is the old policy of > 'being conservative in what you send and liberal in what you accept'. > > Some mailers are broken, and we have to deal with it. I do get mail with > either 'Umnlaut' 8-bit chars country or with 'Accents' over vowels, and > these > _break_ vm if they appear in From: or Subject:. VM then refuses to work with > mailboxen containing these and I have to manually clean the mailbox (via, > say, mutt) and restart emacs. Royal pain. > > How about VM refusing to accept such mails to at least not break folders? > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~vm > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~vm > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~vm Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~vm More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
