On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Jan Christoph Nordholz wrote:
> when accepting mail in pure "local" mode (exim4 -bm) and when the
> sender address is given unqualified in the mail header, exim4 tries to
> qualify it with both the domain (which is fine) and the realname,
> as read from the gecos field returned by getpwnam(). If this
> gecos field contains 8-bit characters, exim escapes them using
> the active locale (in my case, 'ä' => '=E4' with ISO8859-1 (or -15)),
> but declares it to be UTF8, which is plain wrong:
You must have set the headers_charset option at runtime or the
HEADERS_CHARSET value at build time. The default value is ISO-8859-1.
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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service
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