Re: 8bit in email (was Re: [9fans] Running a server/service??)

Re: 8bit in email (was Re: [9fans] Running a server/service??)

[Boyd Roberts]

From: <rog@vitanuova.com>
> > yeah i see the 'alpha'.
> 
> i don't, despite the fact that i'm running plan 9 on mail that's been
> retrieved by plan 9.

i read the whole 150 (or so) pages of the 4 mime docs.
i think it would be near impossible to get right.  damn thing
is recursive and has a bunch of state and you just wanna
call in the airstrike on your own position.

why i know this is a hideous story -- corporate spying;
they wanted to know who was mailing what to whom and i
wrote a shell script, yes no perl, no programs, ordinary
garden variety 7th ed shell script with some awk.

i even asked one of the guilty what some stupid field was
for -- he couldn't remember.

8bit in email (was Re: [9fans] Running a server/service??)

[rog]

> > i might point out Acme mail and *edmail do, too.
> > -. (or -a. for the unicode impaired)
>
> yeah i see the 'alpha'.

i don't, despite the fact that i'm running plan 9 on mail that's been
retrieved by plan 9.  i imagine there are still mail servers out there
that don't understand "Content-Transfer-Encoding" and knock off all the
8th bits regardless.  quoted-printable would probably survive better.

  cheers,
    rog.