Re: Odd behaviour of the subject line

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From: virtanen (hvirtane@cc.jyu.fi)
Date: Tue Mar 06 2001 - 06:13:06 CST


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@pop.jyu.fi
Message-Id: <a05001903b6c8f97935a7@[130.234.171.158]>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 10:07:20 +0200
To: oplaa@fr420.edu.jyu.fi
From: Jari =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rantam=E4ki?= <rantamak@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@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@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@cc.jyu.fi


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