[Mailman-Developers] [PATCH] Fix endless prefix adding with q-p/base64 Subject lines
Miroslaw Jaworski
mjaw@ipartners.pl
Mon, 8 Apr 2002 09:44:41 +0200
* Ben Gertzfield (che@debian.org) [020408 08:59] wrote:
> On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 01:05 , Fil wrote:
>
> > This is a two-prefix subject line (taken from the mailman .mbox file, in
> > order to be sure)
> >
> > Subject: [Spip] =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_=5BSpip=5D_exclusion_mot_cl=E9s?=
> >
>
> Fil,
>
> I just checked CVS and you are indeed right. I thought I had sent this
> patch in ages ago, but I can't find it in the archives.
>
> Barry, this patch to CookHeaders.py fixes this issue of endless prefix
> string adding if the Subject line gets encoded, by decoding the Subject
> line before searching for the prefix. It encodes the new prefix if
> needed as a separate chunk in the new Subject header. This will allow
> for Japanese, French, whatever prefix strings.
>
> I really apologize, I thought it was sent in and applied many moons
> ago. I need a better brain. :)
>
> I'm attaching the patch, but this is the crazy Mac OS X Mail.app, so who
> knows if it will be readable or not. In case it's not, here is a URL
> for the patch:
>
> http://people.debian.org/~che/mailman/patches/cook-headers.patch
The same problem appeared when whole body was encoded - textual Mailman
signature was appended to the post; MUA recognizes and decodes the
message - textual Mailman signature becomes a visible trash.
Problem was already addressed, and is solved in MM2.1
MJ.
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Server Administration Department Manager