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[Manoj <srivasta@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

This was reported by a Debian user.

RFCs are all good and well -- better still is the old policy of 
'being conservative in what you send and liberal in what you accept'.  

Some mailers are broken, and we have to deal with it.  I do get mail with
either 'Umnlaut' 8-bit chars country or with 'Accents' over vowels, and these
_break_ vm if they appear in From: or Subject:. VM then refuses to work with
mailboxen containing these and I have to manually clean the mailbox (via,
say, mutt) and restart emacs. Royal pain.

How about VM refusing to accept such mails to at least not break
folders?

** Affects: vm
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: vm (Debian)
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #551480
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=551480

** Also affects: vm (Debian) via
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=551480
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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vm: vm cannot cope with 8-bit headers
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/490029
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Status in VM (View Mail) for Emacs: New
Status in “vm” package in Debian: Unknown

Bug description:
This was reported by a Debian user.

RFCs are all good and well -- better still is the old policy of 
'being conservative in what you send and liberal in what you accept'.  

Some mailers are broken, and we have to deal with it.  I do get mail with
either 'Umnlaut' 8-bit chars country or with 'Accents' over vowels, and these
_break_ vm if they appear in From: or Subject:. VM then refuses to work with
mailboxen containing these and I have to manually clean the mailbox (via,
say, mutt) and restart emacs. Royal pain.

How about VM refusing to accept such mails to at least not break folders?