Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 19:59:01 +0100 From: Ian Vaudrey <i.vaudrey@bigfoot.com> To: "'Stefan Bethke'" <stefan.bethke@hanse.de> Cc: "'freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG>, "'jfitz@FreeBSD.ORG'" <jfitz@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ports/mail/cyrus Message-ID: <01BDD6AC.25B3C7E0@ivwk00152.cableinet.co.uk>
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Please think hard before committing. This patch breaks RFC822 compliance and is in any case no longer needed for the current version of Cyrus. >From http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/cyrus/imapd/changes.html : "Cyrus no longer rejects messages with 8-bit characters in the headers. Rather than reject the message, characters with the 8th bit set are changed to 'X'. Internationalization in headers is supported by the mechanism specified in RFC 2047 (and RFC 1342)." PR7789 has been submitted by Hans Huebner to bring the Cyrus port up to date. I hope it will be reviewed and committed soon, as Cyrus is an important piece of software. - Ian On 02 September 1998 16:05, Stefan Bethke wrote: > <<File: cyrus.txt>> > Hi, > > the enclosed patch adds the new option ALLOW_8BIT_IN_HEADER to the port. > > Because RFC822 mandates that only characters within the ASCII range are > permitted in messages, imapd rejects messages containing such characters in > the header. > > The new option is a gross hack to allow the chars anyway. It has been in > use for almost a year now. imapd doesn't seem to have a problem with these > chars. Because it is a hack, I feel it should be non-standard (as the patch > makes it). > > Additionally, the patch makes the port honor CFLAGS. > > If you have no objections, I would commit this the next few days (or let > you do it). > > Thanks, > Stefan > > -- > Muhlendamm 12 | Voice +49-40-256848, +49-177-3504009 > D-22089 Hamburg | e-mail: stefan.bethke@hanse.de > Germany | stb@freebsd.org > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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