http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4078





------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2006-12-10 23:23 -------
See the comments in bug 5188 which has been closed as a duplicate of this one.

The problem is that there are a number of character sets that have the Roman
alphabet as the 0x20 to 0x7e ASCII characters and some other language in the
high-bit characters. Anyone with a Hebrew Windows machine, for example, is
likely to send all mail, including English, in the Windows-1255 charset. That's
why every charset that begins with "WINDOWS" is whitelisted. As I said in bug
5188 comment 6:

"I'm leaning towards having the charset-faraway test for bodies not give a free
pass to the non-Latin Windows, ISO, and CP125 charsets, since there is already a
test for the majority of characters in the body being high-bit which will allow
through Roman alphabet emails in those charsets. Doing that would require a
change to keep the free pass for the charset-faraway-header test."

In other words, keep the current test to be used for charset-farawy-header, and
use a different sub for the test used for charset-faraway for the body that does
not whitelist non-Latin WINDOWS, ISO, and CP125 charsets. The existing code will
still let the charset be accepted as Roman as long as the body has a majority of
7-bit characters.



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