Re: digests and MIME

[Colin Rafferty <craffert@spspme.ml.com>]

>>>>>> "Colin" == Colin Rafferty <craffert@spspme.ml.com> writes:
>>>>>> "Steven" == Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

Colin> It is formatted incorrectly if it has not been decoded.

Steven> You're getting it transmogrified into QP I presume?

Colin> Yes I am.  See firther down for the relevent headers.

Colin> As an example, you posted yours that way.  I received it here through
Colin> ding@ifi.  Here are the relevent headers from the message:

FAQ> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.94)
FAQ> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
FAQ> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Steven> It's a problem with your mailer, or something between you and
Steven> ifi.uio.no. 

Steven> The way I posted it *and* the way I received it:

Steven> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.94)
Steven> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Steven> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

I will have to try to find the offending (offensive?) relay site.
Looking through my archive, I have seen headers of the form:

HDR> X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by relay.domain.com

At least these relays are telling us that they have done something evil.

On the other hand, I still think that my points about de-miming before
undigestifying are valid. :-)

-- 
Colin