OT: RFC compliance [ was Re: using iconv() ]

[Matthias Andree]

Chris Wilkes <cwilkes-bf at ladro.com> writes:

> Is there a program that will check an email for RFC compliance?  Maybe
> run email through that first and dump it into a "brokenrfc" folder.

Postfix can be configured to be quite picky, but it doesn't work out
unless you are a _HUGE_ site (with a million customers at the very
least). Just too many sites _I_ want mail from use broken software,
sending Windows-1252 and declaring ISO-8859-1, using unencoded umlauts
(national characters) in headers and all this.

EBay, for instance, violate RFC-2822. The user puts an umlaut into the
description, EBay sends it by mail unencoded.

Fighting broken headers is like fighting windmills. :-(

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Matthias Andree