[dev] [cvs] commit: imp/docs CHANGES imp/lib base.php framework/MIME/MIME Structure.php imp/config conf.xml

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>
>> slusarz     2006-03-20 23:55:37 PST
>>
>>   Modified files:
>>     docs                 CHANGES
>>     lib                  base.php
>>     MIME/MIME            Structure.php
>>     config               conf.xml
>>   Log:
>>   Bug: 2702
>>   Allow admin to specify local default character set to use for
>> broken messages
>>   without charset information.
>
> This has to be a preference like in any other email client.

I debated putting this in the preferences, but this is really not  
something an end-user should normally be dealing with.  This is why  
there are several sentences of explanations on what this is good for  
in the config file - this would not transfer over as well to the  
preferences (sure we could put it in a help entry, but we all honestly  
know how few people read a help entry). In fact, this setting will  
probably break more messages than it enables to be shown "correctly".

And if we put this in the preferences, then we really need to default  
this to not only blank (i.e. RFC compliant = 'us-ascii') but I also  
feel very strongly we need to have this locked by default.  Since I  
don't think we have any other preferences locked by default, it seemed  
like this would be better placed in the admin config.  Obviously I can  
see the advantages of a preference (not everyone on a single  
installation necessary shares the same language preferences, for  
example), but then again this is a tremendous hack for people who  
really don't understand (or are not willing to listen to the  
explanation of) why these malformed messages should not be displayed  
properly.  (sidenote: I still personally don't understand why people  
complain about this when 99%+ of this malformed messages are spam in  
the first place!)

michael

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