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

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

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

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

On 22.04.08 11:55, Michael M Slusarz wrote:
> You are confusing valid MIME encodings with valid _SMTP_ encodings.   
> SMTP does not allow 8bit characters.  And 8bitmime extension can't be  
> used either.

he is not confusing those two, it's just you not seeing that the RFC 1652
DOES allow transferring of 8bit messages as 8-bit, if both client and
sender are capable of it.

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