At 13:23 2004-05-08, you wrote: >I'm from Norway, and we have non-ascii characters of our own - ������ - >and I've seen this a few times. But: RFC2822 quite clearly states that >only US-ASCII characters are allowed in headers. (See section 2.2). > >The solution to this is to encode our special characters with >quoted-printable (aka quoted-unreadable) or somesuch. Properly encoded >subjects aren't caught by SpamAssassin. > >All the mail user agents I use on a regular basis do this properly, but >the plain mail, mailx and sendmail commands on most Unix systems don't >know how to do this. While this has caused a few issues for us, we >haven't felt any need to adjust the score of this one, quite simply >because "We're wrong and the RFC is right". =)
In that case, Yahoo Mail does not encode the subjects.
