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lantz moore <lmoore@contigo.com> writes:

> the headers on the part are:
> Content-Type: message/rfc822
> Content-Disposition: inline
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> 
> mm-encode.el is definitely qp-encododing the message/rfc822 part on
> purpose.

And RFC2046 forbids that.  Fix in Pterodactyl Gnus v0.80.

> on a somewhat related point, why do we need to qp-encode text/.* and
> message/rfc822?  shouldn't we really only have to quote an occurance of
> the boundary in the message text (which is quite unlikey anyway)?  just
> curious.

mml selects the MIME boundaries carefully -- it looks into each part,
and if it finds the boundary it was going to use in there, it selects
a new boundary.  So boundary selection is not an encoding issue.

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