Dear OTRS-Users/-Admins,
we actually use OTRS 5.0.22.
We recognise problems regarding the mime encoding of the subject line when creating new email tickets. As germans we sometimes use 8-bit encodings (UTF-8) when creating tickets. If the tickets subject contains several words and more than one word contains a non-ascii character, each word for itself is base64 encoded instead of the whole subject line.
This is not compliant to RFC 2047 as stated in the manual page of perl module MIME::Words:
"Warning: this is a quick-and-dirty solution, intended for character sets which overlap ASCII. It does not comply with the RFC 2047 rules regarding the use of encoded words in message headers. You may want to roll your own variant, using encode_mimeword(), for your application. Thanks to Jan Kasprzak for reminding me about this problem."
I patched this behaviour by changing Kernel/System/Email.pm using encode_mimeword instead of encode_mimewords
sub _EncodeMIMEWords {
my ( $Self, %Param ) = @_;
# return if no content is given
return '' if !defined $Param{Line};
return MIME::Words::encode_mimeword(
Encode::encode(
$Param{Charset},
$Param{Line},
),
'Q', $Param{Charset},
);
}
I think/hope that this solution implements RFC compliant behaviour. Maybe this version should be included in future otrs releases?
--
Kind regards
Christoph
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