RFC-2047 [was: New spam trick]

[Nick Simicich]

At 09:35 AM 2003-07-21 -0400, David Relson wrote:

>At 09:05 AM 7/21/03, Boris 'pi' Piwinger wrote:
>>David Relson wrote:
>>Ah!!! That stuff.  I, too, have noticed occasional messages like those.
>
>Looks like bogofilter doesn't know about RFC-2047.  I guess it's time to 
>add RFC-2047 compliance to the TODO list.

Just as a point:  I understand that you do not plan on decoding the mail 
and forwarding it, if this is a typical bogofilter use, it is only to 
"examine in eyespace" what would be presented to the user.  I have looked 
into this a fair amount for demime, and this is a really hard piece to get 
correct.  Only certain header fields may be encoded, and so 
forth.  Furthermore, it is possible to encode newlines and cr's, such that 
if you reparse a decoded header, the header is no longer a good 
header.  The RFC warns that the header should only be decoded for keeps, as 
it were, by the MUA of the recipient.  This is for good reason.


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were to withdraw and everything were to return to the way it was before,
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