Re: [hypermail] Odd behaviour of the subject line

From: virtanen <hvirtane_at_cc.jyu.fi_at_hypermail-project.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 14:13:06 +0200 (EET)
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0103061325210.12296-100000_at_kanto.cc.jyu.fi>

On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Daniel Stenberg wrote:

> > 'Re: Tämä on ääkköstesti'

> > 'Tämä on ääkköstesti'
> >
> > This went trought without any problems.
>
> Then why is that mail a problem?

That was not the problem, but there was a problem exactly for the reason I told:

*The commented message*, which was generated by friend from the first message, was not correct any more. I will include that one here once again. (That message was included in my earlier message as the last part of it.):

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X-Sender: rantamak_at_pop.jyu.fi
Message-Id: <a05001903b6c8f97935a7_at_[130.234.171.158]> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 10:07:20 +0200
To: oplaa_at_fr420.edu.jyu.fi
From: Jari =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rantam=E4ki?= <rantamak_at_cc.jyu.fi> Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-1?Q?T=94m=94?= on =?iso-8859-1?Q?=94=94kk=96stesti?= ( =?iso-8859-1?Q?=9F=F7?= ) kommentti Cc: hvirtane_at_cc.jyu.fi
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

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The subject line in the message above should be:

'Re: Tämä on ääkköstesti kommentti'

But because of that problem (, which appears during the process, when the user 'rantamak_at_cc.jyu.fi' is commenting the message) it changes into the one as shown above.

> > But when he commented it the problem appeared.

> I think your friend is using a crappy mail program. If you could show us the
> mail headers from a mail that *didn't* turn out fine,
> we could easily decide...

That message is included here above (again) as it was in my previous message.

My opinion is as well that something is wrong with the e-mail program, but as told earlier, I'm not sure. His program is 'Eudora' and we have already checked it many times that the character settings there should be iso8859-1.

But:
Is it possible that the mail-server machine, which is in between the machine with that 'eudora' and the hypermail server, changes the character encoding settings?

hvirtane_at_cc.jyu.fi Received on Tue 06 Mar 2001 02:17:46 PM GMT