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

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Otto Stolz <Otto.Stolz at uni-konstanz.de>:

> 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.

You are confusing valid MIME encodings with valid _SMTP_ encodings.   
SMTP does not allow 8bit characters.  And 8bitmime extension can't be  
used either.

michael

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