On 5 May 1999 michael@??? wrote:
> I got the following error message:
>
> Expansion of "$header_subject" in t_helpdesk transport contains non-printing characters
>
> It looks like a user might have sent a mail with a special character in the
> subject. Is there any way to fix that problem besides removing text = ?
Not at present. There probably ought to be an expansion operator called
"escape" which converts a string into all printing characters. As there
is already a function in Exim to do this job, adding the operator should
be easy. I will look into it.
On Wed, 5 May 1999, Hans-Georg v. Zezschwitz wrote:
> Did you set the "print_topbitchars"-option to true?
In fact, this wouldn't have affected this particular check.
> A number of MUAs send 8-bit-headers.
This contravenes RFC 822, and will cause picky MTAs to reject such
messages.
On 6 May 1999 michael@??? wrote:
> I do not have this option set, but I would not like to have 8-bit chars in the logfiles.
8-bit characters in log entries should be converted to escape sequences.
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