From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: GIF/jpeg attached as quoted-printable in MIME?
Date: 27 Sep 1999 20:43:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31zbk42lf.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ubtaotdmn.fsf@lanber.cam.citrix.com>
Toby Speight <Toby.Speight@streapadair.freeserve.co.uk> writes:
> Exactly - but AIUI, encoded body parts are canonicalised during SMTP,
> just like unencoded text parts. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the
> "foo\nbar" above will be received as "foo\r\nbar" and the receiver
> _may or may not_ convert that back to "foo\nbar" (depending on the
> recipient's local conventions).
Right. For instance, Windows users won't convert from \r\n to \n.
Probably. Uhm. Well, they might, it the part is a non-text part...
> But if "foo=0a=\nbar" is canonicalised to "foo=0a=\r\nbar", it still
> decodes to "foo\nbar", since "=\r\n" is ignored (the same as "=\n").
> Does that make any kind of sense?
Yes, that makes sense.
> Perhaps this is a topic to bring up in comp.mail.mime?
Yup.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-09-27 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-08 21:24 Bjorn Halvor Solberg
1999-09-09 0:14 ` Bjorn Halvor Solberg
1999-09-25 8:40 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-09-25 10:23 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-09-25 10:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-09-26 21:46 ` Johan Kullstam
1999-09-27 14:03 ` Toby Speight
1999-09-27 17:59 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1999-09-27 18:26 ` Toby Speight
1999-09-27 18:43 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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