Re: POP3 UTF-8 support

Matthias Andree <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am 05.07.21 um 18:27 schrieb Charles Cazabon:
> >
> > If I had to guess, I would say it seems to expect the client to issue the
> > "UTF8" command from RFC6856, which is not an accepted standard.
> >
> > The server is broken.  Report the problem to the postmaster of the server.  Do
> See courier-mta.org's libs/imap from the courier-IMAP tarball:
[...]
> >     * Provide an substitute message to IMAP clients that did not enable
> >     UTF-8.

Okay, so that's confirmed - it's enforcing rfc6856 even though that's not an
accepted standard.  I would be interested to hear if the message being
retrieved actually has non-ASCII characters in its headers, or whether Courier
is doing something stupid.

Making such a drastic, incompatible change to 822/2822 -- allowing
non-encoded, non-ASCII charaters in the header (as opposed to body) -- seems
like a pretty dumb idea to me.  There is a lot of legacy software out there
that is never going to be updated to handle that.

Charles
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