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[Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ulrich,

I have to leave this one to you as well.  I don't think VM should fall
down just because it gets messages with 8-bit headers, but I don't
have any samples to work with.

Cheers,
Uday


Manoj writes:

> 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
> 
> -- 
> vm: vm cannot cope with 8-bit headers
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/490029
> You received this bug notification because you are a member of VM
> development team, which is the registrant for vm.
> 
> 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?
> 
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