From: "David B Funk" 
| Just so long as you never need to receive email from somebody
| outside the US. QP-encoding is the -correct- way to send
| messages with international characters in the headers.
| Note that SA has rules that (correctly) hit messages that
| have raw 8-bit chars in the headers (that's a violation of
| RFC-2822 ).
| 
| Some international email clients QP-encode their subjects,
| even when it contains nothing but 7-bit ASCII.

I agree there will always be the caveat

I think the flexibility of individual rule setting is the beauty 
of SA

Earlier there was a post with a url to a site claiming to be
able to cut past all the filters.

This is one example of a rule they may have no idea exists
(up until now of course)

I'm sure there are a ton more.

Regards 
Greg


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David B Funk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Greg Cirino - Cirelle Enterprises" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: ISO subject line


| On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Greg Cirino - Cirelle Enterprises wrote:
| 
| > > From: Brad Tarver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| > > What can I put in sa-mimedefang.cf to stomp emails with
| > > =?iso-8859-1?b?
| > > in the subject?
| >
| > We use this:
| >
| > header SUBJECT_ENCODED_CE  Subject:raw =~ /=\?.*\?=/i
| > describe SUBJECT_ENCODED_CE        Subject encoded
| > score SUBJECT_ENCODED_CE 10.7
| >
| > Appears to kill any encoded subject.
| >
| > If they go to the trouble of encoding the subject
| > I guess they lose here
| 
| Just so long as you never need to receive email from somebody
| outside the US. QP-encoding is the -correct- way to send
| messages with international characters in the headers.
| Note that SA has rules that (correctly) hit messages that
| have raw 8-bit chars in the headers (that's a violation of
| RFC-2822 ).
| 
| Some international email clients QP-encode their subjects,
| even when it contains nothing but 7-bit ASCII.
| 
| -- 
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