Comment 0 for bug 27121

Package: mailx
Version: 1:8.1.2-0.20030521cvs-1
Severity: wishlist

Mailx is very widely used by all sort of scripts to send messages. Often,
these scripts are localized to national character sets, that use 8bit
headers, or are written by the local admin in his 8bit-enabled language.

mailx should encode all 8bit headers using RFC2047, and whatever is the
locale charset. If the locale charset is C or something else that does
not allow for 8bit chars, mailx really should be setting those chars to
'?' instead of sending malformed rfc2822 messages with 8bit chars in headers.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux khazad-dum 2.4.22-rc2-ac3 #1 Qui Ago 21 09:41:12 BRT 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=pt_BR, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR

Versions of packages mailx depends on:
ii base-files 3.0.10 Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii libc6 2.3.2-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii liblockfile1 1.05 NFS-safe locking library, includes
ii postfix [mail-transport-agent 2.0.14-1 A high-performance mail transport

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