Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] Suggestions for FormMail.pl

[Jonathan S. <jn...@ge...>]

On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 21:22, Steven Mackenzie wrote:
> A proposal to add a Content-type header to the mails sent by
> FormMail.pm, so that the emails include the charset that the user
> configured in FormMail.pl:
> 
> One of the user configurable parameters in FormMail.pl is charset.
> 
> My HTML form is written in UTF-8, I have set charset to UTF-8, and
> posted data is emailed to me as UTF-8. Unfortunately, the emails do not
> use the Content-type header, so my mail client displays them in a
> default characterset, which is not UTF-8.
> 
> Adding these two lines of code to FormMail.pm resolve the issue:
> 
> After FormMail.pl: Line 1285
>     $self->mailer->print("Content-Type: text/plain;
> charset=".$self->{CFG}{charset}."\n");
> 
> After FormMail.pl: Line 1122
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=${\( $self->{CFG}{charset} )}
> 
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1049.txt  - content type header for email
> http://www.sendmail.org/rfc/0822.html#4 - headers may be in any order
> 
> This was helpful for me. is it contentious?
> 
> Steven
> 
> 
> Jonathan Stowe wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 16:44, Steven Mackenzie wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I have made some small changes to my FormMail.pm installation to use the
> >>configured Mailer name consistantly, avoid mails being flagged as spam
> >>by SpamAssassin, and to add a content type header that respects the
> >>users configured character set.
> >>
> >>I see the FormMail script hasn't been updated in a while though. Is
> >>anyone interested in adding these changes (in while case I'll describe
> >>and justify them)?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >FormMail hasn't been changed in a while because it hasn't had any bugs
> >to be fixed and we are not encouraging adding new features - we are
> >concentrating any new development in TFmail as we aren't constrained by
> >the legacy of compatibility with the MSA FormMail.
> >
> >However if you send us a patch against the modules version of FormMail
> >we can take a look and discuss it.
> >
> >/J\
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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