[imp] 8-bit transfer (was: IMP, Outlook and Hotmail)

[Otto Stolz]

Hello,

Michael M Slusarz schrieb:
>> User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4
>> MIME-Version: 1.0
>> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

> Have to laugh at this one because *this* message is broken.  8bit  
> transfer encoding is not allowed by RFC.

8bit transfer encoding is allowed per RFC 1652
<http://rfc-ref.org/RFC-TEXTS/1652>,
combined with RFC 2045, section 2.8
<http://rfc-ref.org/RFC-TEXTS/2045/chapter2.html#sub8>.

And Imp displays it alright, cf. attached screen shot.

Best wishes,
   Otto Stolz


-------------- Usage example --------------
S: 220 mailhub.uni-konstanz.de ESMTP
C: EHLO xxxxxx.rz.uni-konstanz.de
S: 250-mailhub.uni-konstanz.de
    250-8BITMIME
    250-SIZE 104857600
    250 STARTTLS
C: MAIL FROM: <Otto.Stolz at uni-konstanz.de> BODY=8BITMIME
S: 250 sender <Otto.Stolz at uni-konstanz.de> ok
C: RCPT TO: <XXXXXX.XXXXXX at uni-konstanz.de>
S: 250 recipient <XXXXXX.XXXXXX at uni-konstanz.de> ok
C: DATA
S: 354 go ahead
C: Subject: 8-bit test
    From: Otto <Otto.Stolz at uni-konstanz.de>
    To: N.N. <XXXXXX.XXXXXX at uni-konstanz.de>
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

    Falsches Üben von Xylophonmusik quält jeden größeren Zwerg.
    .
S: 250 ok:  Message 69047464 accepted
C: QUIT
S: 221 mailhub.uni-konstanz.de
Connection to mailhub.uni-konstanz.de closed by foreign host.
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