From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13487 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Coleman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Mule-begot problems Date: Wed, 07 Jan 1998 00:14:03 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <199801070514.AAA06118@redwood.math.gatech.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152845 9519 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:27:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:27:25 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA10410 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 21:20:03 -0800 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (root@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA05029 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 23:18:13 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAH14800; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 23:18:23 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 06 Jan 1998 23:16:21 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA14787 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 23:16:13 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 12764 invoked by uid 504); 7 Jan 1998 05:16:03 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 12761 invoked from network); 7 Jan 1998 05:16:03 -0000 Original-Received: from math.gatech.edu (root@130.207.146.50) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 7 Jan 1998 05:16:03 -0000 Original-Received: from redwood.math.gatech.edu (redwood.math.gatech.edu [130.207.146.12]) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA01021 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 00:14:38 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from redwood.math.gatech.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by redwood.math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA06118 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 00:14:03 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-reply-to: Your message of "06 Jan 1998 23:02:05 EST." Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13487 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13487 > RA> I don't believe the standard actually distinguishes between the local > RA> delivery agent and the client; as soon as the mail is no longer being > RA> transmitted via SMTP, I believe the standard is no longer relevant. > > Not as far as RFC 822 and its extensions are concerned. These are not SMTP > standards but the standards that define what is valid in an Internet mail > message, and they all say, "7-bit ASCII data". > This is incorrect. Checking RFC-822 Some message systems may store messages in formats that differ from the one specified in this standard. This specifica- tion is intended strictly as a definition of what message content format is to be passed BETWEEN hosts. Now mail clients may choose to store messages in a RFC-822 compliant way, but is a design decision of the client. There isn't any RFC which specifies a standard format for storing messages locally. It someone creates an 8-bit clean environment, Mule shouldn't break this. -- Richard Coleman coleman@math.gatech.edu