Re: [Exim] inconsistency with non-ascii

On Wed, 15 May 2002, Phil Chambers wrote:

> I have a problem with handling header fields containing non-ascii text. (We seem to
> be getting more and more such messages!)
>
> This is exim 3.33
>
> I have an autoreplyt ransport containing:
>
> subject = Failed: ${if def:h_Subject: {$h_Subject:}{alternative text}}
>
> The message log for messages with non-ascii text in the Subject: field contains the
> failure: "Expansion of "Failed: ...." in the xxxx transport contains non-printing
> character 177.
>
> I would have thought that exim should either refuse to accept messages at the SMTP

My vote would be to reject the non-ASCII headers.

> stage if they contail illegal headers, or it should accept non-ascii in the
> string-expansion. Message like this which do not hit this particular transport go
> through for delivery.
>
> Do I have any way round this?
>
> Phil.
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> Phil Chambers (postmaster@???)
> University of Exeter
>
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