[Mailman-Users] special characters in headers

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Tue Nov 15 23:34:14 CET 2005


At 7:00 AM -0600 2005-11-15, Lisa Bronson wrote:

>  Has anyone ever successfully used characters (such as the inverted
>  question mark, c with cedilla, n with tilde) in an email list header?

	You mean in messages being submitted to the list, or messages 
generated by the system itself?

>  We've tried a number of different things, including using an = sign
>  followed by the hex value of the character, and setting through the
>  command line, but so far, nothing has worked.

	If you're talking about messages being sent by users to the list, 
that's entirely up to their MUA.

	For the rest, you'll need to be editing a template file and using 
an 8-bit clean editor.

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