Re: [exim-dev] Bug report: exim uses wrong locale when geco…

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Autor: Philip Hazel
Datum:  
To: Jan Christoph Nordholz
CC: exim-dev
Betreff: Re: [exim-dev] Bug report: exim uses wrong locale when gecos-qualifying sender address
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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