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Re: Weird character in From: causes mutt to not extract reply address?



Toby <tobia.conforto@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Charles Cazabon wrote:
> > I'm not a Unicode/locale guru.  Is the above valid?  I don't think so
> > (as I thought all non-ASCII chars in headers had to be encoded), but I
> > was hoping for confirmation.
> 
> No, it's not valid.

I figured that.

> Now you can:
> 1. try and get the sender to use a standards-compliant program (yeah...)

It's Hotmail.  Chances of getting Microsoft to recognize that obeying mail
standards are important are about 0.0001.  Chances of them actually
understanding and implementing those standards correctly are such that I've
got a better chance of pulling a pregnant yak out of my arse :).

> 2. tell him he'd better put that string in place of the æ by hand; or
> 3. use a procmail filter to do the substitution yourself.

I think I'll take option 4, bitbucket future messages from this user.

Thanks,

Charles
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