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

Kevin A. McGrail <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #27 from Kevin A. McGrail <[email protected]> 2011-10-27 18:56:10 
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(In reply to comment #25)
> These rules catch the attached examples:
> 
> header RUSSIAN_SUBJECT Subject:raw =~ /=\?windows-1251\?/
> header HEBREW_SUBJECT Subject:raw =~ /=\?windows-1255\?/
> 
> The problem, as explained in comment #8, is that it's possible to send
> legitimate emails with entirely English subjects using these encodings.  
> 
> It would be nice if, in the absence of evidence that mail clients fail to
> comply with the requirement to use the smallest inclusive character set, we
> could assume they comply, and assume all emails with these encodings are not
> English.

I researched this in 2009 and used something similar in milter code:

if ($Subject =~ /=\?(koi8-r|Windows-1251)\?/i) {
  print "DEBUG: Cyrillic Test 1\n";
}

Unfortunately, I found that I had customers who do things like write in Greek
occasionally and things like that get slammed. 

Regards,
KAM

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