Urgent: CCN: Pine-Fr: Cf/fcc on postponed message

From: Laurent CAPRANI <m237636@er.uqam.ca>
To: "'Robert Cormier'" <trc@auracom.com>
Cc: "'csuite-french@chebucto.ns.ca'" <csuite-french@chebucto.ns.ca>,
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 22:09:39 -0300
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"=3D?ISO-8859-1?Q?msgs-envoy=3DE9s?=3D" is the MIME "quoted printable" =
<!-- unreadable ...;-( --> encoding for "msg-envoy=E9s". This encoding =
is used to put non-ASCII characters inside Internet mail headers. This =
is one of the kludges by which the Internet tries to go global.

My understanding of the problem:
Pine defines a default "Fcc:" to "send-mail" (see "default-fcc" and =
"fcc-rule-name" configs.), which we translated to "msgs-envoy=E9s", so =
Pine should try to save a copy of the message to a folder named =
"msg-envoy=E9s".
However, considering "Fcc" being header of an Internet message, Pine =
meticulously encodes non-ASCII characters using the MIME scheme.
It is a bug within Pine! Pine should not consider Fcc being an Internet =
header and MIME encoding should not occur.

An immediate workaround would be to change the name of the folder to =
"msg-envoye".

Fixing the bug may not be obvious. All cases of conversion between file =
names and header content should be considered. Take for instance the =
"by-recipient" rule for "fcc-rule-name", it creates a folder name after =
the recipient's name. If the recipient is "Robert Andr=E9 Cormier" =
(encoded "Robert =3D?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=3DE9s?=3D Cormier"), decoding =
should be done before making the file name.

-----Message d'origine-----
De:	Robert Cormier [SMTP:trc@auracom.com]
Date:	30 avril, 1997 14:23
=C0:	m237636@er.uqam.ca
Cc:	csuite-french@chebucto.ns.ca
Objet:	Urgent: CCN: Pine-Fr: Cf/fcc on postponed message

Laurent, I would appreciate your input on this. If it is a emulation, =
comm
package problem (on which we have no control), it might be safer to =
strip
the accents in the french folders names! Please reply directly in the
csuite-french list. Thanks! =20

>Subject: Re: CCN: Pine-Fr: Cf/fcc on postponed message
>
>I tried to get this to happen today, but everything I tried failed to
>cause the error.  This appears to me to be either a buffer overrun (a
>coding problem) or an emulation problem (comm package problem)  I will =
try
>again tomorrow.
>
>Sean
>
>On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Robert Cormier wrote:
>
>> Sean, this one is very important to repair. The 8-bit name of folder =
seems
>> to work fine everywhere else. Let me know if you find a solution. =20
>>=20
>> >After postponing a message (control-o) and resuming (c) the Cf: =
field is
>> >translated as follows:
>> >
>> >Cf      : =3D?ISO-8859-1?Q?msgs-envoy=3DE9s?=3D
>> >
>> >instead of=20
>> >
>> >Cf      : msgs-envoy=E9s
>> >
>> >
>> >The field does not translate back to the correct file name for
>> >Cf: when the message is actually sent.
>> >
>> >Instead the prompt appears:
>> >
>> >Le classeur "=3D?ISO-8859-1?Q?msgs-envoy=3DE9s?=3D" n'existe pas. =
Cr=E9ation?
>> >
>> >+Ed
=00


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