OK I'll move these to a separate folder instead of deleting them. //James
On Mar 12, 2012, at 14:14 , Christian Lohmaier wrote: > Hi James, *, > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:50 AM, James Wilde > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mar 12, 2012, at 10:45 , Florian Effenberger wrote: >> [...] >> I agree. My mailer does, but the code for UTF-8 in the From and Subject >> fields appears to be some kind of html code. > > Whenever there are non-ascii characters in the subject/any other > header field, it is mime-encoded. > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2047#section-8 (examples) > ################# > MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: > Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text > [...] > The following are examples of message headers containing 'encoded- > word's: > > From: =?US-ASCII?Q?Keith_Moore?= <[email protected]> > To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Keld_J=F8rn_Simonsen?= <[email protected]> > CC: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= Pirard <[email protected]> > Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?B?SWYgeW91IGNhbiByZWFkIHRoaXMgeW8=?= > =?ISO-8859-2?B?dSB1bmRlcnN0YW5kIHRoZSBleGFtcGxlLg==?= > ################# > all valid, although the From one is unnecessary. both quoted printable > as well as base64 variants are shown, examples with different charsets > are shown (although it is not common to use different encodings, and > even less common to mix them in one single header field) > > I never saw html in from and/or subject lines ever, not in spam, not > in other posts. > >> Otherwise the UTF-8 coding appears somewhere in the header, I believe. And >> I've never seen the string I quoted anywhere other than in these two fields. > > You did not quote any string. you did say it starts with "=utf-8?" > (and probably missed a ? here), but didn't quote the string. A charset > definition is not spam nor html. > > And while it is true that most spam has this trait (as most spam that > passes the filters is from china or russia and hence need to encode > the text), the opposite conclusion (everything that has encoded > characters is spam) is wrong. > > ciao > Christian > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/moderators/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/moderators/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
