[ic] [interchange-core] Encoding of mail headers

[David Christensen]

On Mar 4, 2009, at 9:27 AM, Stefan Hornburg wrote:

> David Christensen wrote:
>> On Mar 4, 2009, at 2:52 AM, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote:
>>
>>> According to RFC 2047 mail headers with characters other than US-
>>> ASCII needs
>>> to be escaped. Interchange fails to do so, resulting in emails
>>> delivered
>>> which will be tagged by Spamassassin with SUBJECT_NEEDS_ENCODING and
>>> SUBJ_ILLEGAL_CHARS.
>>>
>>> I wrote a simple filter which addresses this problem:
>>>
>>> CodeDef mime_encode_words Filter
>>> CodeDef mime_encode_words Description Find MIME type of filename
>>> CodeDef mime_encode_words Routine <<EOR
>>>
>>> use MIME::EncWords;
>>>
>>> sub {
>>> 	return MIME::EncWords::encode_mimewords(shift);
>>> }
>>> EOR
>>>
>>> Of course the whole IC email infrastructure needs to be adjusted to
>>> use
>>> this.
>>
>> The Encode module also offers this capability, and has the benefit of
>> being core.  While we're doing this, we should revisit the body
>> encoding as well.  I definitely agree that this should be done.
>>
>
> How would this work with Encode?
>
> Regards
> 	Racke


use Encode qw(encode);

sub mime_encode_header {
     return encode('MIME-Header',shift);
}

Regards,

David
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