From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/13490 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Mule-begot problems Date: 07 Jan 1998 12:03:22 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <199801062012.VAA31638@esemetz.ese-metz.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035152847 9530 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:27:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:27:27 +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 DAA14863 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 03:06:54 -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 FAA18747 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 05:05:25 -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 FAH18031; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 05:05:34 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 07 Jan 1998 05:03:50 -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 FAA18016 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 05:03:41 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 13732 invoked by uid 504); 7 Jan 1998 11:03:30 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 13729 invoked from network); 7 Jan 1998 11:03:29 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 7 Jan 1998 11:03:28 -0000 Original-Received: from petty.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (petty.informatik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.20.161]) by waldorf.informatik.uni-dortmund.de with SMTP id MAA20994 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 12:03:23 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by petty.informatik.uni-dortmund.de id MAA11225; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 12:03:23 +0100 Original-To: "(ding)" In-Reply-To: Stainless Steel Rat's message of 06 Jan 1998 15:16:32 -0500 Original-Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13490 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:13490 >>>>> "FP" == Fabrice Popineau writes: FP> Why should 8bits data be encoded in 7bits if the right Mime FP> headers are stated ? >>>>> On 06 Jan 1998, Stainless Steel Rat said: Rat> Because the MIME specifications say it should, because there Rat> are a lot of MTAs out there that are not "8-bit clean". Fabrice mentioned that 8bit data is only sent if the receiving end indicates that it can understand that. There seems to be a protocol negotiation of some sort in ESMTP. I don't see anything wrong with two instances talking 8bit to each other after previously having established that they both understand it. kai -- Kai Grossjohann, Informatik VI grossjohann@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de Uni Dortmund, D-44221 Dortmund http://ls6-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/ Vox +49 231 755 5670, Fax -2405 I like both kinds of music.