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From: Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net>
Subject: Re: 8bit mails via POP and IMAP mail-source
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 16:49:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <00Aug9.164914edt.115211@gateway.intersys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: simon@josefsson.org's message of "09 Aug 2000 20:45:53 +0200"

* simon@josefsson.org  on Wed, 09 Aug 2000
| I guess the default for `mail-source-imap-file-coding-system' should
| be `raw-text' then?  `binary' and `raw-text' are equal, I think,
| modulo eol character, so let's see if `binary' work.

No, they are not equal.  raw-text treats data as text, which is wrong.
binary is the closest thing Emacs has to being able to treat a data stream
as a data stream, which is what you want to happen.
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-08-09 20:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-08-09 13:27 Pavel Janík ml.
2000-08-09 13:56 ` simon
2000-08-04 17:29   ` Pavel Janík ml.
2000-08-09 18:41     ` simon
2000-08-09 14:39   ` Kai Großjohann
2000-08-09 18:45     ` simon
2000-08-09 20:49       ` Stainless Steel Rat [this message]
2000-08-09 15:11   ` Stainless Steel Rat

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