Jonathan Armitage wrote: >I see some spam with "windows-1252" or other unwanted character sets at >the start of the subject. I reject them via an Exim ACL, so SA doesn't >even have to scan them. > >
Which brings up the subject... How legitimate is email sent as windows-1252? I see absolutely no reason to send it, since it offers no advantage over iso-8859-1 or utf-8, and the RFC's are pretty clear about using the "smallest" encoding that will fit a message, i.e. usascii => iso-8859-1 => utf-8 (in that order). Further, if you're in the Unix world (or more broadly, not in the Windows world), why would you want to use vendor-specific encodings for no reason other than they're the broken defaults Microsoft chose to use? -Philip
