https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4352





--- Comment #13 from Justin Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  2008-04-01 01:32:27 PST 
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(In reply to comment #12)
> > As a matter of interest, are there any ways to tell that a set of 
> > RFC-2822 headers use draft-ietf-eai-utf8headers headers, or not?  scanning 
> > for UTF-8 chars?
> 
> draft-ietf-eai-utf8headers can be used, only if the MTA advertises UTF8SMTP.
> The sending client does not confirm that UTF8SMTP will be used, it is just
> used. However UTF8SMTP can be used only when 8BITMIME is offered by the MTA 
> and
> the client declared its usage for the current message (in MAIL FROM: ...
> BODY=8BITMIME).
> 
> Hence, my suggestion is to let spamc accept one more parameter and reports to
> spamd if the client has used 8BITMIME and the MTA offered UTF8SMTP . In this
> case using UTF8 in headers shall lead to less spam scores, than in all other
> cases (all other cases = the mail contains 8 bit headers and the client does
> not use 8BITMIME or the server/MTA does offer UTF8SMTP or 8BITMIME) and the
> currently associated scores for SUBJ_ILLEGAL_CHARS .

Unfortunately that will only indicate if the *most recent* MTA->MTA hop was
utf-8.  If a previous hop did not use that, then any 8-bit data present may not
be valid utf-8, even if the last hop used it successfully.


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