Re: [ietf-822] utf8 messages

[Brandon Long <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Ned Freed <[e-mail]> wrote:

> > Let me try one more time, since something isn't making it through.
>
> > I have three messages.  One message has an entirely 7bit header with 2047
> > encoded subject.  Another message is a 6532 message, with the subject in
> > utf8.  A third message is has a cp-1250 8bit subject.  There are two 8bit
> > bytes in the subject in both of the last two messages, and in the cp1250
> > case, those two bytes happen to also be a valid utf8 character.
>
> > We want to be able to parse all three of those and do so correctly.  We
> > know the third type is technically invalid, but we see millions of such
> > messages every day, dropping all of those would be a dis-service to our
> > users.  We currently see way more of such messages than we do of 6532
> > messages... though in practice, the most common charset now is utf-8, so
> I
> > guess those are now the same as 6532 messages that have leaked.
>
> I thought I understood the problem you were attempting to solve, but now
> I'm
> totally confused, because this seems to hqve nothing to do with additional
> labeling of legitimate EAI messages at all.
>

My point is that without a label, I can't tell the difference between the
6532 messages and the illegitimate messages, given just the message.

Brandon