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[Bug 490029] Re: vm: vm cannot cope with 8-bit headers

 

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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: Confirmed
Status in “vm” package in Debian: Confirmed

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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