utf8 charecters in email's subject line

[Gary Yu]

Hi all,

We have an application(based on broadvision) running on HPUX 11.0, it has its own smtp API, and I'm running sendmail 8.9.3 on the server. The message generated by the application has utf8 characters in both message body and Subject line, we can set "text/plain; charset=utf8" to specify utf8 of the mail body in applicaton, but it won't affect the subject line. the mails received the the clients in Outlook have wrong chars of subject.

So is it something we can set at sendmail side or elsewhere?

thanks,
Gary

[Steven E. Protter]

try this....

send mail to yourself on the command line.

sendmail -v you@yourcompany.com

Type in a line
hit enter
type a single period
hit enter

Look at the mail you get.

I am pretty sure you'll see a clean mail with no subject.

Which means the application is broke. Contact the application vendor.

SEP

[Gary Yu]

Thanks Steven,

I guess I didn't explain the issue clearly -- we need to send out mails from application which has UTF8 characters in both subject and message body. the application vendor has solutions to specify mime charset in mail header, but it seemes only affect chars in the message itself, but doesn't take effect on the subject, I guess it belongs to envelop, so I'm trying to find a way to correct that from sendmail side ...

thanks,
Gary