Craig Whitmore wrote: >>- China, India, Brazil alone, not to mention Malaysia, Indonesia, most of >>Africa, all of the Middle East, Scandinavia, Turkey, Russia, the 'former >>East >>Bloc', and much of Africa all use national languages that do not fit >>ASCII neatly. >> >>Computer and internet use in these areas is no longer insignificant. >> >>The 'net is becoming less and less an 'English only' exercise with each >>passing >>year. > > > So your saying we should allow 8 bit and Double Chars in all emails from > everywhere
'Allow', yes. On your 'incoming' from remote servers, certainly. As to your own user-group, you might be able to stick with 7-level USASCII for composition (in the MUA settings). WinFools are harder to control, seem to love composing in html. As every one of my clients has *at least* two languages they work in, I must support UTF8 and several others. > and MIME encoding is no longer needed? > Separate issue. Base-64, and even UUENCODE are still standard/common, and there is a huge world in MIME and SMIME types that probably won't be signiifcantly simplified in my lifetime anyway. Though I have seen vacuum tubes almost disappear from computers. > Remember I am talkign about in the Headers Only. Here is a same of the > rejected messages from the rule in the last 12 hours. I checked and that all > quoted MIME (and where correctly MIME encoded for the body of the message), > but they didn't encode the Subject correctly. <X> = the ASCII code. > ??? > Subject: Our Pro<92>s do the selling so you don<92>t have to! > Subject: Don<92>t be against getting pleasureUse Viagra Pro. > Subject: Property Hunter <96> New Listings > Subject: Get 1500 by tomorrow <96> apply > Subject: john,You don<92>t want to miss Automated Millions ! > Subject: Dr. Pratt<92>s Prescription for a New You! > Subject: Which do you prefer? Cingular® or Verizon®? > Subject: It<92>s New. It<92>s Profitable > Subject: S^?^Q<9F><9B>÷úÖESCwÛßQ¼¸ÖxvÚ > Subject: $250 to dress up your little one with Gap® clothes. > Subject: FW: <96><9C><97>¢<8E>q<82>Å<82>· > Subject: Conventional wisdom is wrong again<85> > Not sure what you are attemptng to illustrate here. iso-8859-1 and one or more common WIN-proprietary and Mac-idiosyncratic encodings are out of step with ASCII, but an apostophe should be OK even in 64-char subset of USASCII (all caps+ common punctuation), a la chaintrain & drum printers, e.g. DataPrinter CT1064, Sheppard 600, etc. Perchance is some spammer composing in an Eastern European encoding? Spam filtering and MIME defanging are different issues from the 'Subject:" encoding. Your MUA or on-box editor settings may be what you are really loking at, not Exim. Bill -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
