Decode MIME headers for better readability in web interface.

[petrkle]

Hi,

this change "Subject: =?UTF-8?B?UMWZa....." to readable version.

Cheers
Petr

[tsibley]

I'm not sure we actually want this behaviour. It is often useful to see exactly what RT sent out, and munging that on display means you then need to go poking through the database.

[ruz]

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Thomas Sibley [email protected]:

I'm not sure we actually want this behaviour. It is often useful to see
exactly what RT sent out, and munging that on display means you then need
to go poking through the database.

Good variant is to put a tag around with decoded value in title attribute
so decoded value can be seen on mouse over.

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[petrkle]

It would be nice that ordinary user can read subject and sender of outgoing messages. Especialy in non-ascii countries. Admins can change preferences to show raw headers.

http://git.io/oY9CCw

[netsandbox]

I like @ruz idea. You can see the decoded and encoded version without switching a config option.

[tsibley]

On 11/09/2012 06:27 AM, Petr wrote:

It would be nice that ordinary user can read subject and sender of
outgoing messages. Especialy in non-ascii countries. Admins can change
preferences to show raw headers.

Ordinary users generally don't scan through full email headers to find
the Subject and recipients/sender.

I don't think this warrants a config option or user preference. I
prefer @ruz's suggestion.

[petrkle]

Not optimal in my opinion, but better than nothing.

[tsibley]

Why did you close this request without the commit being merged?

[petrkle]

After a month, nothing happened.

[tsibley]

On 12/13/2012 05:06 AM, Petr wrote:

After a month, nothing happened.

We're a busy team. Not everything gets dealt with within a month. :)

I agree that it would be useful to have some sort of decoding of
headers, and I think the tooltip solution is a good compromise. It
requires someone with a little bit of time to do some testing, but
otherwise it should be a shoo-in for the RT 4.2 series (master branch
currently).

Looking at your latest patch more closely, my main concern is that it
runs decode("MIME-Headers", ...) over the entire header block, rather
than on individual headers.