From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by coral.primenet.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA02956 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 1996 06:33:59 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA20830; Tue, 13 Aug 1996 16:23:14 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 16:23:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Zoltan Hidvegi Message-Id: <199608132022.WAA02231@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> Subject: Re: bug in zsh 3.0-pre6? To: schaefer@nbn.com Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 22:22:12 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <960813125931.ZM2257@candle.brasslantern.com> from Bart Schaefer at "Aug 13, 96 12:59:31 pm" Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary Phone: (36 1)2669833 ext: 2667, home phone: (36 1) 2752368 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL16 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Resent-Message-ID: <"R4YdG1.0.O55.nGE4o"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1963 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > I didn't get any lossage ... the problem appears to be that Zoltan > is sending out > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > which isn't necessary (his message is all 7bit) but which causes "smart" > ESMTP agents to convert to quoted-printable when gatewaying to an old > SMTP (not 8-bit-clean) agent. > > Zoltan didn't do the encoding; it happened along the way somewhere. > But Zoltan could have prevented it by using 7bit as his C-T-E, if he > has that level of control over his mail client. There was a letter `é' in the message I quoted. My mail client (elm-2.4ME+) scans the message for characters with 8th bit set and if it finds one it automatically uses 8bit, quoted-printable or base64 encoding (it uses quoted-printable only if I tell it during compile time that my MTA does not support 8bit, and it uses base64 if more the percentage of 8th bit set characters is high). When I read a message, quoted-printable or base64 is seemlessly converted on the fly by elm. Zoltan