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icon5.gif   Email subject garbaged when set?, posted by Chris Green on Wed Jul 27 17:30:38 2005 
    icon2.gif   Re: Email subject garbaged when set?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Thu Aug 4 22:59:12 2005 
       icon2.gif   Re: Email subject garbaged when set?, posted by Chris Green on Fri Aug 5 01:13:13 2005 
       icon2.gif   Re: Email subject garbaged when set?, posted by Heiko Scheit on Fri Aug 5 11:18:08 2005 
          icon2.gif   Re: Email subject garbaged when set?, posted by Stefan Ritt on Fri Aug 5 12:37:42 2005 
Message ID: 1375     Entry time: Thu Aug 4 22:59:12 2005     In reply to: 1350     Reply to this: 1376   1384
Icon: Reply  Author: Stefan Ritt  Author Email: stefan.ritt@psi.ch 
Category: Question  OS: Linux  ELOG Version: 2.6.0b3 
Subject: Re: Email subject garbaged when set? 

Chris Green wrote:
The email I get has:

Subject:
=?ISO-8859-1?B?W0Jvb05FLUVMT0ddIE5ldyBzdWJtaXNzaW9uIHRvIENoYXJnZWQgQ3Vyc
mVudCBQaSBQbHVzIGZyb20gQ2hyaXMgR3JlZW4=?=

... which isn't particularly illuminating.


This is the BASE64 encoding of the subject. It was discussed here and I implemented it according to RFC2047. All subjects I receive look fine in Outlook and Thunderbird, but not under Pine, which apparently does not implement the RFC correctly. One could of course put a switch into elog to encode it or not. But as soon as you want to send some non-ASCII characters (like the Norwegian as described in the thread mentioned above) you have a problem. Maybe you can configure your email client correctly to interprete the encoded subject?
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