From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/28039 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Brian May's `Re: Bugs in PGnus' article jams Gnus Date: 09 Dec 1999 22:55:32 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <877liqx43y.fsf@senstation.vvf.fi> <2n66ya1xv3.fsf@tiger.jia.vnet> <2npuwiwsoe.fsf@tiger.jia.vnet> <2n9034ude3.fsf@tiger.jia.vnet> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035164955 27700 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:49:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:49:15 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from bart.math.uh.edu (bart.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.48]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA24983 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 22:56:11 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by bart.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAB24699; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 21:56:06 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 09 Dec 1999 21:56:09 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA02702 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 21:55:58 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from MIT.EDU (PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.69.0.28]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA24973 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 22:55:36 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from GRAND-CENTRAL-STATION.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA11825; Thu, 9 Dec 99 22:56:18 EST Original-Received: from melbourne-city-street.MIT.EDU (MELBOURNE-CITY-STREET.MIT.EDU [18.69.0.45]) by grand-central-station.MIT.EDU (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA15500 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 22:55:35 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from acoma-estate.mit.edu (IDENT:amu@ACOMA-ESTATE.MIT.EDU [18.241.1.193]) by melbourne-city-street.MIT.EDU (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA27028 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 22:55:34 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by acoma-estate.mit.edu (8.8.7/4.7) id WAA05522; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 22:55:34 -0500 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "09 Dec 1999 19:48:19 +1900" Original-Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28039 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:28039 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 (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)