Re: [exim] charset of "fail" messages

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Author: Richard James Salts
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To: Felipe Gasper, exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] charset of "fail" messages


On 28 November 2015 7:40:01 am AEDT, Felipe Gasper <felipe@???> wrote:
>On 27 Nov 2015 3:31 PM, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 02:55:34PM -0500, Felipe Gasper wrote:
>>
>>>> A non-delivery-notification (MIME multipart/report content type
>>>> RFC3462) consists of (up to) three parts:
>>>>
>>>>      1. Required initial free-form body part, this can use UTF-8
>>>>         without any need for EAI.

>>>>
>>>>      2. Required message/delivery-status machine readable part,
>>>>         this requires EAI for non-ASCII content. (RFC3464).

>>>>
>>>>      3. Optional returned message or message headers.  If
>>>>         the returned message has UTF-8 headers, it may need
>>>>         to encapsulated as an EAI message/global

>>>>
>>>> My interpretation of the question was that you wanted UTF-8 in the
>>>> "part 1", body, in which case *in principle* you could have raw
>>>> UTF-8 there, and a "charset=utf-8" attribute for the enclosing MIME
>>>> part, provided that the code that generates bounces (in this case
>>>> in Exim) allows you configure the charset and associated content.
>>>
>>> Yes, part 1 is where I want the UTF-8 to go.
>>>
>>> I’ve not consulted the RFCs myself. Basically, I want the text after
>Exim
>>> shows the intended recipient address to be able to be any UTF-8
>characters.
>>
>> This may well be a feature request, I don't know whether Exim
>> supports this or not. As proof of concept (this is neither a
>> sufficient nor implied reason to consider Postfix, just an
>> example I happen to be familiar with):
>>
>
>I think, yes, this is a feature request.
>
>src/deliver.c, at least, hard-codes US-ASCII as the charset for those
>“fail” messages; the ability to customize those doesn’t seem to be in
>evidence currently.
>
>It would, of course, make Exim that much friendlier to i18n contexts to
>
>have this!
>


You mean this? http://exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-customizing_bounce_and_warning_messages.html
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