On Dienstag 29 September 2009 Shane Kerr wrote: > I have been getting familiar with the IMAP RFC lately, and it says > this: > > Note that headers (part specifiers HEADER or MIME, or the > header portion of a MESSAGE/RFC822 part), MUST be 7-bit; > 8-bit characters are not permitted in headers. > > http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3501.html
A bit off-topic, but: Nice, but there are programs with bugs that generate 8bit headers, namely that Outlook extension that gives the users fancy backgrounds and funny pics to add... what's it's name? Erhmmm... Incredimail. That stupid program, for german setups, creates a time header like this: 10:37 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit meaning mid-european summer time - see the umlaut-a (ä) there. mfg zmi -- // Michael Monnerie, Ing.BSc ----- http://it-management.at // Tel: 0660 / 415 65 31 .network.your.ideas. // PGP Key: "curl -s http://zmi.at/zmi.asc | gpg --import" // Fingerprint: AC19 F9D5 36ED CD8A EF38 500E CE14 91F7 1C12 09B4 // Keyserver: wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net Key-ID: 1C1209B4 _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list DBmail@dbmail.org http://mailman.fastxs.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
