Re: 8bit encoding in mail header by SpamAssassin

> > That is what I am here for, because the bad headers seem to be made by
> > SpamAssassin running on a system with German locale settings and
> > therefore causing trouble when encoding (or more precisely: not
> > encoding) umlauts. The administrator of that system claims he is using
> > the newest version and that is what the headers say as well, but the
> > encoding is faulty.
>
> I am pretty sure there is at least one long-standing bug on this. Hopefully
> a still-open bug.
> The basic problem is that SA builds the header that contains some text from
> the original message, and it doesn't do anything special to quote that text.

No.

I already deleted this thread (since it didn't seem all too interesting to me ;), but unless I am seriously mistaken and my memory plays foul trick on me: The quoted header in question is X-Spam-Report, and the German Umlauts appeared as part of the rule description.

This text does not come from the original message unquoted, but is a part of the (localized) SA rules.

Interestingly, 'file' reports 30_text_de.cf to be ISO-8859 English text on my SA 3.2.0 installation. Did this change till 3.2.3? Are these custom changed descriptions?

  guenther

-- 
char *t="\10pse\0r\0dtu\0.@ghno\x4e\xc8\x79\xf4\xab\x51\x8a\x10\xf4\xf4\xc4";
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