Matthias Andree put forth on 11/18/2010 4:23 AM: > Am 18.11.2010 01:28, schrieb Stan Hoeppner: >> Subject: >> =?iso-8859-1?Q?Le_invitamos_a_asistir_a_la_Presentaci=F3n_de_la_Oportunid?= >> >> =?iso-8859-1?Q?ad_de_negocio_en_ACN_Marketing_y_Servicios_de_Telecomunica?= >> =?iso-8859-1?Q?ciones?= >> >> Does anyone have a header_checks pcre that would allow me to reject or >> discard any email with an encoded subject such as, but not limited to, >> that above. I.e. non plain text? >> >> I can't recall ever receiving legit email with an encoded subject, only >> spam. > > Oh, then why does your mailer encode your mail body as ISO-8859-1? I > might argue that only spam would contain that. Your mail body does not > bear any non-ASCII characters.
Maybe I'm using the wrong terminology, or not explaining my case clearly. > What I mean is that it's not spam because it's encoded. I've seen KOI8-R > declared on legit pure-ASCII mail, and it wasn't spam. Not to say I > have seen lots of broken mailers that get MIME encoding wrong. It's > subtle enough that many software packages break in corner cases. What I mean is that all email I receive that has the contents of the Subject: header encoded is spam. You may be misunderstanding my logic here. At this site, we have no correspondence with non-English language composing senders. The fact that the Subject: header lines are encoded probably has much more to do with the email being composed in a language that requires special characters. This in itself does not make an email spam. But the fact that we don't receive legit mail composed in non-English languages does make it spam. For instance, I recently received spam in Spanish and Cyrillic, through two different hacked webmail accounts in two countries, Spain and Russia, both with encoded Subject: headers. Does my motivation here make more sense now? -- Stan
