From: Tony Williams 

Geo. wrote:
> Ok I don't understand so maybe someone can give me a rational explanation of
> this.
>
> Why would an email program accept
>
> Subject: =?ascii?B?W1NQQU1dICBPbmxpbmUgUGF5bWVu?=
> =?ascii?B?dHMgYW5kIG91ciBzZWN1cmUgc2l0?= =?ascii?B?ZSE=?=
>
> and decode it to
>
>  [SPAM]  Online Payments and our secure site!
>
> This just boggles the mind, I mean if you were trying to create secure
> application wouldn't you restrict to a least common instead of allow
> everything? Email is 7bit ascii not unicode correct? Is this somehow needed
> to allow unicode subject line where the RFC's don't allow it?
>

What about RFC 2047? That appears to allow 7-bit encoding of unicode subjects.

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Tony

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