Re: [exim] Subject / Topic (T=) encoding in exim mainlog

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Author: Jeremy Harris
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Subject / Topic (T=) encoding in exim mainlog
On 17/11/17 19:06, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> On 15/11/17 14:51, Gryzli Bugbear via Exim-users wrote:
>>> I'm trying to find what is the encoding that exim uses, when logging
>>> Topic(T=)/Subject to exim mainlog.
>>>
>>> Currently cyrillic subjects are logged to something like this :
>>>
>>> \321\201\321\200\320\276\320\272\320\276\320\262\320\265
>
> Doesn't a message with such subject violate the spec? It ought to be
> rfc-2047-encoded, right? Or does exim decode it and then log the
> decoded version? That would be a mistake, IMHO; it should just log the
> rfc-2047 form.


However, it's what it does. What I described was being applied
to the $h_subject contents, so it's had mime-decoding applied
by that point.
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Cheers,
Jeremy