[Mailman-Users] mails send from a webmail system dont get a Subject_prefix if there are umlauts

[Mark Sapiro]

Götz Reinicke wrote:
> 
> recently we noticed, that mails send from our webmailsystem TWIG 
> containing a german umlaut in the subject aren't getting a 
> Subject_prefix from maliman. Mails from other mailclients do get the 
> Subject_prefix.
> 
> The problem seams, that twig isn't encoding the subject correctly, so it 
> get invalid and thats why mailman isn't setting a Subject_prefix.
> 
> Is there a way to get mailman setting the Subject_prefix?

Mailman does a lot of processing to try to properly insert the 
subject_prefix. I'm not surprised that something fails if the incoming 
subject is not properly encoded.

I am able to duplicate the problem and will look at it further, but the 
real solution is to use MUAs that create standards conformant messages

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