Hey folks, I've patched up my local mailer.py[1] to correctly encode "From: " Headers.
The attached patch *works* but it's not pretty. Someone who actually knows Python might want to encapsulate my changes in a function. n.b.: I am not subscribed to this ML, if you want notify me of updates, please CC me. So long, i [1] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/tools/hook-scripts/mailer/mailer.py -- Igor Galić Tel: +43 (0) 664 886 22 883 Mail: i.ga...@brainsware.org URL: http://brainsware.org/ GPG: 6880 4155 74BD FD7C B515 2EA5 4B1D 9E08 A097 C9AE
Index: mailer.py =================================================================== --- mailer.py (revision 1516) +++ mailer.py (working copy) @@ -236,7 +236,15 @@ except UnicodeError: from email.Header import Header subject = Header(subject, 'utf-8').encode() - hdrs = 'From: %s\n' \ + from_hdr = '' + words = self.from_addr.split() + for word in words: + try: + from_hdr += ' ' + word.encode('ascii') + except UnicodeError: + from email.Header import Header + from_hdr += ' ' + Header(word, 'utf-8').encode() + hdrs = 'From:%s\n' \ 'To: %s\n' \ 'Subject: %s\n' \ 'MIME-Version: 1.0\n' \ @@ -246,7 +254,7 @@ 'X-Svn-Commit-Author: %s\n' \ 'X-Svn-Commit-Revision: %d\n' \ 'X-Svn-Commit-Repository: %s\n' \ - % (self.from_addr, ', '.join(self.to_addrs), subject, + % (from_hdr, ', '.join(self.to_addrs), subject, group, self.repos.author or 'no_author', self.repos.rev, os.path.basename(self.repos.repos_dir)) if self.reply_to: