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)
prev parent 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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