On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 02:10:47AM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > Crystal Kolipe wrote in > <zscwxx+zedwrz...@exoticsilicon.com>: > |On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 12:36:48AM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: > |> Non-7-bit clean headers need RFC 2047 (and/or RFC 2231) encoding. > | > |The use of MIME encoded words to encode header content is no longer > |considered best practice. See, for example RFC 6532. > > Yes there is SMTPUTF8, which is a special protocol. > The /global MIME thing i personally have _never_ seen in practice.
I wasn't suggesting it as the only alternative. For the foreseeable future we obviously need to default to using the old style encoding for non-ASCII headers.