Re: [Exim] [Snapshot] changing the semantics of $header_

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Leonardo Boselli
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] [Snapshot] changing the semantics of $header_
On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Leonardo Boselli wrote:

> I have had problem on upstream server [that i do not manage] so it is
> possible the message has not reached the list. Mi idea was that
> althought chnging internal behaviour of the program is not usually a
> good thing, this change could not be so severe, since even the
> behaviour of the user has changes, increasingly finding encoded
> headers. A poll shopuld be the best thing to door, why not adding a
> /etc/exim/headr.option file to decide to use old or new behaviour by
> default (and adding a $dh_ as a decoded version, so each one by
> selcting the proper option on that file could choose the meaning for $h_


I feel that the majority of non-expert users just won't understand the
issues here. They are most likely just to use $h_ and it seems best to
try to make that do what they probably expect it to do.

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