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From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Subject: Re: Brian May's `Re: Bugs in PGnus' article jams Gnus
Date: 09 Dec 1999 22:55:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <udln1rjv497.fsf@acoma-estate.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "09 Dec 1999 19:48:19 +1900"

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro_johann) writes:

> How many MTAs are still around which do not grok 8bit characters and
> just strip off the high bit?  If there are still some, it would be
> better not to send 8bit mails.

Some of MIT's mailhubs still run Sendmail 5 and strip high bits. :-/

> Hm.  But I think Gnus doesn't send 8bit mails anyway?  At least not by
> default? 

I just sent a test message with 5.8.2 containing 8-bit characters in
both the headers and the body.  The headers were properly RFC
2047-encoded, but Gnus sent the body as 8bit. :-/

-- 
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)


      reply	other threads:[~1999-12-10  3:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-12-07 13:38 Hannu Koivisto
1999-12-07 13:52 ` Gunnar Evermann
1999-12-07 14:06   ` Stein Arild Stromme
1999-12-07 14:21   ` Hannu Koivisto
1999-12-07 15:23     ` Laura Conrad
1999-12-07 16:01       ` Per Abrahamsen
1999-12-07 16:16         ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-12-07 17:09 ` Shenghuo ZHU
1999-12-07 17:45   ` Shenghuo ZHU
1999-12-07 18:18     ` Hannu Koivisto
1999-12-07 18:22       ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-12-07 18:57         ` Shenghuo ZHU
1999-12-07 19:21         ` Hannu Koivisto
1999-12-07 18:35     ` Toby Speight
1999-12-07 19:02       ` Shenghuo ZHU
1999-12-07 20:01         ` Jan Vroonhof
1999-12-08  9:18           ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-12-09  0:46     ` Brian May
1999-12-09  1:11       ` Shenghuo ZHU
1999-12-09 13:37         ` Jan Vroonhof
1999-12-09 14:14           ` Per Abrahamsen
1999-12-09 15:46           ` Jan Vroonhof
     [not found]           ` <rj9034mcb2.fsf@zuse.dina.kvl.d <byr9gw2k2u.fsf@bolzano.math.ethz.ch>
1999-12-09 16:08             ` Per Abrahamsen
1999-12-09 19:18           ` Jan Vroonhof
1999-12-09 22:55             ` Shenghuo ZHU
1999-12-10  6:31               ` Lloyd Zusman
1999-12-10  6:42                 ` Shenghuo ZHU
     [not found]           ` <rj9034mcb2.fsf@zuse.dina.kvl.d <byr9gvrkh2.fsf@bolzano.math.ethz.ch>
1999-12-10  8:19             ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-12-10  9:24             ` References (was: Re: Brian May's `Re: Bugs in PGnus' article jams Gnus) Per Abrahamsen
1999-12-10  9:59               ` Hrvoje Niksic
1999-12-10 11:52                 ` Per Abrahamsen
1999-12-10 10:24           ` Brian May's `Re: Bugs in PGnus' article jams Gnus Jan Vroonhof
1999-12-10 10:58             ` Broken References (was: Brian May's `Re: Bugs in PGnus' ...) Toby Speight
     [not found]           ` <rj9034mcb2.fsf@zuse.dina.kvl.d <byso1b14bp.fsf@bolzano.math.ethz.ch>
1999-12-10 12:06             ` Brian May's `Re: Bugs in PGnus' article jams Gnus Per Abrahamsen
1999-12-10 14:27           ` Jan Vroonhof
1999-12-10  0:46         ` Kai Großjohann
1999-12-10  3:55           ` Aaron M. Ucko [this message]

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