procmail support [LWN.net]

procmail support

Posted Dec 2, 2010 12:28 UTC (Thu) by robbe (guest, #16131)
In reply to: procmail support by mpr22
Parent article: Reports of procmail's death are not terribly exaggerated

To be fair, rfc2047-style headers are fully backward compatible. My procmail installations work through a lot of mail including theses header extensions without any problems.

Special handling is only needed if you want to modify and/or extract the mail headers via a natural format. E.g. the result of
$ formail -I "Subject: i am naïve"
will not be compliant with rfc2047, and
$ formail -x Subject
will *not* undo any encoding and just return the raw header content. Not a big deal, I think.

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