On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Ashley Yakeley wrote:
OK. So how's this:
1. Pick a charset, in this order: US-ASCII, ISO-8859-1, some other common
charset, UTF-8.
Reasonable.
2. Use 7bit CTE if you can. Otherwise, use 8bit CTE.
Mandatory.
3. Send the message. If the recipient complains that SMTP mangled your
8bit text, resend using quoted-printable CTE.
Nope. If the SMTP server fails to advertise 8BITMIME in response to EHLO,
then downconvert any 8-bit CTE to quoted-printable prior to sending.
If your local MTA doesn't support 8BITMIME, then it's probably time to
upgrade or replace it.
- Chris