From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/57195 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: mx.gnus.org being very strict Date: 03 May 2004 22:27:16 +0900 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <87ad0p4p57.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083590355 9130 80.91.224.253 (3 May 2004 13:19:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 13:19:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M5735@lists.math.uh.edu Mon May 03 15:19:06 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BKdLe-0000Mo-00 for ; Mon, 03 May 2004 15:19:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BKdKE-0007gX-00; Mon, 03 May 2004 08:17:38 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1BKdK6-0007gP-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 03 May 2004 08:17:30 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BKdK5-0002vL-OF for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 03 May 2004 08:17:29 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 347AC3A0205 for ; Mon, 3 May 2004 08:17:28 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BKdK2-0003FJ-00 for ; Mon, 03 May 2004 15:17:26 +0200 Original-Received: from yokohama2-61-203-152-212.ap.0038.net ([61.203.152.212]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 May 2004 15:17:26 +0200 Original-Received: from miles by yokohama2-61-203-152-212.ap.0038.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 03 May 2004 15:17:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: yokohama2-61-203-152-212.ap.0038.net System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57195 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:57195 Matthias Andree writes: > Is there any difficulty with creating a custom header such as: > > To: destination@dd.re.ss > Subject: my subject > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Content-Type: text/x-patch; charset="utf-8" I suspect that there is no coherent `charset' for the patch; it's just bytes. Anyway, you know the old rule: be conservative in what you produce, and liberal in what you accept. So yeah, it'd be nice if everyone would use lots of headers, but rejecting mail outright because there are no mime-headers on 8-bit mail is a bit overly strict. It's the MUA and the recipient that are going to have a problem with the email, if there is one -- and for the same reason, they're also the best placed to judge whether there _is_ a problem. -Miles -- "1971 pickup truck; will trade for guns"