From: Frank Ellermann (nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de)
Date: Tue Jun 29 2004 - 23:11:36 CDT
Russ Allbery wrote:
> The answer for gateways in dealing with Subject: cmsg isn't
> "use Re:", it's "escape cmsg in some fashion if it's not
> supposed to be a control message." That's the more fully
> correct solution
Yes, that's better. Encode the word "cmsg" if the next word
isn't encoded, encode "cmsg " incl. space otherwise, and make
sure that you understand MIME header folding in the presence
of encoded words.
Another solution would be "mail2news gateways SHOULD NOT modify
or act upon the content of Subject headers in any way, and they
MUST handle message/news subjects as message/rfc822 subjects."
Where message/news subject == obs-subject == RfC 1036 subject,
and message/rfc822 subject == new-subject == RfC 2822 subject.
Bye, Frank