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

Harakiri harakiri_23 at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 22 22:27:31 UTC 2008


--- Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org> wrote:

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

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

I think you confuse the two - your first remark is
wrong - the message is not broken, 8bit is a valid
value for the CTE Header, allowed by rfc for mime http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2045#section-6.1


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