From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/37523 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nuutti Kotivuori Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: encrypted mails and quoted-printable Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 17:20:02 +0300 Message-ID: <873d76oagd.fsf@smarttrust.com> References: <2ny9oz4q77.fsf@piglet.jia.vnet> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035172923 14344 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:02:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:02:03 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 21997 invoked from network); 5 Aug 2001 14:20:26 -0000 Original-Received: from smtp.dave.sonera.fi (131.177.130.21) by gnus.org with SMTP; 5 Aug 2001 14:20:26 -0000 Original-Received: from kotivnu1-nb.etela.sonera.fi ([131.177.205.219]:58830 "EHLO oro") by inside.dave.sonera.fi with ESMTP id ; Sun, 5 Aug 2001 17:20:03 +0300 Original-Received: from naked by oro with local (Exim 3.31 #1 (Debian)) id 15TOl8-0001UR-00 for ; Sun, 05 Aug 2001 17:20:02 +0300 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Andreas Jaeger's message of "Sun, 05 Aug 2001 14:54:39 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.4 (Academic Rigor) Original-Lines: 40 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37523 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37523 Andreas Jaeger wrote: > ShengHuo ZHU writes: > >> Andreas Jaeger writes: >> >>> Composing the appended email with gpg.el under current CVS the >>> text is in quoted printable - but there's no need for it since all >>> characters are ASCII. I even prefer iso-8859-1 and have set up >>> the necessary vars for it AFAIK. >>> >>> Any ideas why I still get quoted-printable? >> >> QP encoding is to avoid the article to be mangled. Though a >> message contains only ASCII, lines starting with "From " or so be >> mangled. > > I see - but that's rather unfortunate. Is there no way to avoid > this? I'd rather don't use QP. ,----[ RFC2015 ] | For this reason all data signed according to this protocol MUST be | constrained to 7 bits (8- bit data should be encoded using either | Quoted-Printable or Base64). `---- ,----[ RFC2015 ] | Though not required, it is generally a good idea to use Quoted- | Printable encoding in the first step (writing out the data to be | signed in MIME canonical format) if any of the lines in the data begin | with "From ", and encode the "F". This will avoid an MTA inserting a | ">" in front of the line, thus invalidating the signature! `---- So, if the message is exactly 7-bit, the standard does not _require_ you to use quoted printable, but does recommend it. Ofcourse, News is generally decidedly 8-bit clean and unmangling, so one might break the standard there to be nice. -- Naked