dale:~/ietf/headers> find ~/Mail -type f -print | xargs grep -hi
^content-transfer-encoding | hdrvalues
19
23 base64
334 8bit
1 base64; compression="gzip"
7 16bit
248 7bit
7 binary
337 quoted-printable
The number of files was 6502; 976 C-T-Es were found.
("hdrvalues" is a short PERL script for counting values after the :)
It seems clear that people find the "c-t-e: 8bit" an useful tag somehow!
NOTE: My system does *not* support ESMTP/8BITMIME, so in a "perfect world",
these would not have arrived as C-T-E 8bit. The world is *not* perfect....
I don't mind how badly broken your 8bit is. But, how 7 binaries are
transported? Is it as broken as 8bit?
Masataka Ohta