From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13486 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Mule-begot problems Date: 06 Jan 1998 20:12:49 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <199801062012.VAA31638@esemetz.ese-metz.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152844 9511 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:27:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:27:24 +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 UAA09935 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 20:16:28 -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 WAA01081 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 22:14:46 -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 WAH14171; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 22:14:56 -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 22:13:16 -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 WAA14156 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 22:13:09 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 12520 invoked by uid 504); 7 Jan 1998 04:12:59 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 12517 invoked from network); 7 Jan 1998 04:12:58 -0000 Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (36.21.0.44) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 7 Jan 1998 04:12:58 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 6355 invoked by uid 500); 7 Jan 1998 04:12:50 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of 06 Jan 1998 23:02:05 -0500 Original-Lines: 21 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13486 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13486 Stainless Steel Rat writes: >>>>>> "RA" == Russ Allbery writes: > 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". My contention is that as soon as the message is undergoing local delivery, it is no longer an Internet mail message. > Besides, MTAs should not perform any modification to a message that is > not strictly necessary to ensure proper delivery. The delivery agent is not an MTA. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)