[imp] UTF-8 mail wrapping

Michael M Slusarz slusarz at mail.curecanti.org
Thu Jan 20 09:44:09 PST 2005


Quoting Nikola Lecic <nikola at serbianunity.net>:

> Michael M Slusarz wrote:
>
>> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>>
>>> The wrapping method is not yet multibyte safe.
>>
>>
>> And the wrapping shouldn't really matter on the receiving agents 
>> side since text
>> messages sent by IMP are in "flowed" format. (Obviously, the 
>> receiving MUA must support the flowed format for this to be true).
>
>
> Well, is it possible then not to wrap at all, and to force
> QuotedPrintable or Base64 method by default? Or to make mails without
> any change of Unicode characters in the body and subject field (as
> Mozilla's mail clients do by default)? Like this (sent from Thunderbird):
>
> (the same text)
>
> Користим најновију CVS верзиј Хорде. 
> Као што можете да видите, IMP  је 
> преломио ћирилични текст после 
> четрдесетог слова (уместо после 
> осамдесетог). Текст је откуцан као 
> један пасус. Да ли је то проблем у 
> конфигурацији или нешто друго? Хвала унапред.

Your message was sent in 8bit encoding.  I'm not sure what Thunderbird 
is trying
to do, but AFAIK the controlling RFCs still say that messages SHOULD 
NOT be sent
in 8bit.

michael

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