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

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Tim Bannister <Tim.Bannister at manchester.ac.uk>:

>> Quoting Otto Stolz <Otto.Stolz at uni-konstanz.de>:
>>> Michael M Slusarz schrieb:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>
> I didn't know this. Why can't 8bitmime be used?

Well, for example, how about this (See #3):
http://www-dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/qmail-bugs.html

NOT GOOD.

michael

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