Bug#326642: fails to translate UTF-8 headers

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2005-09-05 Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> wrote:
> On 2005-09-04 Zap-W <zapw at maild.mine.nu> wrote:
[...]
>> Now it works perfectly with email headers encoded in  cp1255 ,
>> ISO-8859-8 ( these are Hebrew ) and even with UTF-8 , Except! for
>> some weird reason in UTF-8 headers once the header reaches a certain
>> length it dosen't get translated ?! exim extracts the headers as it
>> is without processing/translating them, why?

> Hello,
> Confirmed but not a bug.
[exim does not accept overlong rfc2047-words]

4.60 will feature this change.
| PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
|      checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
|      overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?

which will allow exim to be configured to decode broken RFC 2047.
           cu andreas
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