From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13484 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Mule-begot problems Date: 06 Jan 1998 18:07:27 -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 1035152842 9509 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:27:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:27:22 +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 SAA08315 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 18:12:35 -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 UAA25597 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 20:10:52 -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 UAH12800; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 20:11:03 -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 20:07:57 -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 UAA12787 for ; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 20:07:50 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 12181 invoked by uid 504); 7 Jan 1998 02:07:40 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 12178 invoked from network); 7 Jan 1998 02:07:40 -0000 Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (36.21.0.44) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 7 Jan 1998 02:07:39 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 5586 invoked by uid 500); 7 Jan 1998 02:07:27 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of 06 Jan 1998 18:45:00 -0500 Original-Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13484 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13484 Stainless Steel Rat writes: >>>>>> "JLT" == Jason L Tibbitts writes: > JLT> And if my delivery agent recodes to 8-bit before dropping it in my > JLT> mail spool? > Wonderful for you... but it still technically breaks Internet mail > standards. The client is the agent that is supposed to decode the 7-bit > encoding. I don't believe the standard actually distinguishes between the local delivery agent and the client; as soon as the mail is no longer being transmitted via SMTP, I believe the standard is no longer relevant. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)