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Author: Andreas Metzler
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] is it possible to covert 8bit subjects to quoted-printable automatically?
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:55:15AM +0300, Igor Karpov wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 10:38:31AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:26:15AM +0000, Michael V. Sokolov wrote:
>> > %Subj% with exim?


>> You could use ${rfc2047:<string>} and headers_add/remove. But even if
>> you did it would not help you, because there is no reliable way[1] to
>> identify the used charset and ${rfc2047 only supports ISO-8859-1 so

[...]
>> [1] statistical analysis with databases of all natural langauages to
>> check against might work ;-)


> Looks like you may also try to use charset from Content-Type to
> determine this. It's far from a clean solution,


Ack.

> but you may get rather good results,

[...]

Messages without properly encoded headers often don't include a
MIME-declaration for the body, too.

And, as noted above: "${rfc2047 only supports ISO-8859-1" so Michael
would need to use perl.
               cu andreas