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Re: A bad journey (an apocryphal war story)

1992-02-11 07:51:12
I thought I had understood from the discussion in Santa Fe that an
(unescaped) end-of-line in quoted printable was always to be interpreted
as 0D hex, 0A hex, regardless of the local convention for representing
ends-of-lines in text files.  I don't see this spelled out quite so
clearly in the current MIME draft.

However, it wouldn't hurt to restrict the types of conversion that can
be done by a relaying MTA.  Such conversions should always be to a
"safer" format.  So, ordering the content-transfer-encodings as follows:

BINARY
8BIT            QUOTED-PRINTABLE        BASE64
7BIT

you can only convert to something further to the right.

Keith


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