encoding of message-ids
David Bremner
david at tethera.net
Wed Feb 17 05:34:29 PST 2016
Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> writes:
> That said, RFC 2047 suggest that its encodings are only relevant in
> places where a "text" token would be used. Message-ID (and References
> and In-Reply-To) are intended to only contain dot-atom-text tokens. So
> probably it would be more correct to avoid applying to these specific
> fields.
>
> i dunno that it's a big deal though, given the analysis above.
I guess there are two seperate issues. One is the (mildly bogus)
application of RFC2047 decoding to message-ids. The other other is the
coercion into utf8 from whatever wacky 8bit encoding some creative
person might use in a message-id.
d
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