[Dovecot] sieve 0.1.14: vacation encodes Subject twice

Stephan Bosch stephan at rename-it.nl
Fri Jan 8 13:20:16 EET 2010


Roland Rosenfeld wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I noticed the following problem in dovecot-1.2-sieve-0.1.14:
> The following vacation causes trouble with the Subject line:
> 
> if not exists ["List-Id", "List-Post"]  { 
>     vacation :days 7 :addresses ["test at netcologne.de"] :subject "=?utf-8?b?w4TDlsOc?= sadasd" "Bin gerade nicht hier.";
> } 
> 
> As you can see, the Subject is already MIME encoded according to
> RFC2047.
> 
> Starting with sieve 0.1.14 the subject is now encoded by sieve again,
> so I get the following in my vacation mail:
> 
> Subject: =?utf-8?q?=3D=3Futf-8=3Fb=3Fw4TDlsOc=3F=3D?= sadasd
> 
> As you can see, the RFC2047 encoding is RFC2047 encoded, which results
> in an unreadable subject.
> 
> According to RFC5230 section 4.3 this shouldn't happen:
> 
>    The ":subject" parameter specifies a subject line to attach to any
>    vacation response that is generated.  UTF-8 characters can be used in
>    the string argument; implementations MUST convert the string to
>    [RFC2047] encoded words if and only if non-ASCII characters are
>    present.  Implementations MUST generate an appropriate default
>    subject line as specified below if no :subject parameter is
>    specified.
> 
> If I understand this right, sieve should do the RFC2047 encoding only
> if the string is non-ASCII.  But the RFC2047 encoded string is already
> ASCII, so it should not be encoded a second time.
> 
Fixed:

http://hg.rename-it.nl/dovecot-1.2-sieve/rev/219a6f0d6bf6

Regards,

Stephan.


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