From: Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: forwarded mail problems
Date: 21 Jun 1999 08:56:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x7hfo1pmww.fsf@homestyle.dcn.davis.ca.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Bruce Stephens's message of "18 Jun 1999 21:14:22 +0100"
>>>>> On 18 Jun 1999 21:14:22 +0100, Bruce Stephens <bruce@cenderis.demon.co.uk> said:
>> So, uh, ??? Should the encoding be different for outgoing
>> message/rfc822 messages?
Bruce> This hasn't changed for a while, I think. Try looking at the
Bruce> variable mm-content-transfer-encoding-defaults, and changing
Bruce> that. I think it's a misfeature, however---I think Gnus ought
Bruce> to look, and if the enclosed things are 7bit, then it ought to
Bruce> use that (and otherwise, I suspect base64 would be safer,
Bruce> although possibly not more readable to people without MIME
Bruce> MUAs).
Well, the deal is that I'm not setting anything specific in my .gnus
file that should be changing the encoding, so I suspected that
something was actually broken with gnus. Try forwarding yourself
something and I bet it won't work (looks fine in the outgoing
composition... It's not till its un'mml'ified that it seems to get
8bit encoded.
--
"Ninjas aren't dangerous. They're more afraid of you than you are of them."
prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-06-21 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-06-18 19:18 Wes Hardaker
1999-06-18 19:26 ` Colin Rafferty
1999-06-18 20:14 ` Bruce Stephens
1999-06-21 15:56 ` Wes Hardaker [this message]
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