Bug 104862

Summary:	couriermlm's subject-tagging ignores encoded subjects
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Sebastian L. <gentoo.org_4>
Component:	[OLD] Server	Assignee:	Scott Taylor (RETIRED) <swtaylor>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Sebastian L. 2005-09-05 01:16:08 UTC

when couriermlm's subject-tagging is enabled for mailinglists, it fails to 
recognize existing tags when those are encoded. example:

X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.62i) Personal
Subject: [Technik] =?ISO-8859-1?B?UmU6IFtUZWNobmlrXSBWZXJzdORuZG5pc2ZyYWdl?=

...where the '[Technik]'-tag is already included in the binary-encode.

mail-client encode subjects if there are 8bit-characters in it, like german 
umlauts. some mailclients THEN also encode the tag-brackets, as shown in this 
example:

X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510
Subject: [Technik] =?iso-8859-1?Q?
AW:_=5BTechnik=5D_Re:_=5BTechnik=5D_Verst=E4ndnisfrage?=

...where brackets are done by =5B and =5D, which are less then 7F and thereby 
7bit-characters. while this seems to be a bug in M$ outlook, it would be nice 
if couriermlm could work around this one :)


this bug is very likely contained in upstream, so i'm sending the link to this 
report there myself and will provide with any information i get back on this.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. use couriermlm to manage your mailinglist and set subject-tagging
2. use 8bit-characters in your subject
3. reply to your mail :)

Comment 1 Sebastian L. 2005-09-05 07:19:09 UTC

sam varshavchik answered to my email:

"This is probably true.  This is a very low priority issue.  I'll get to it 
eventually."

Comment 2 Sebastian L. 2005-09-05 07:20:43 UTC

upstream will eventually fix this.