At 19:11 12.04.2001 -0700, ned(_dot_)freed(_at_)mrochek(_dot_)com wrote:
I believe this is done in anticipation of agents that can deal with 8bit but
not MIME encodings. And regardless of whether or not you or I think this is a
good thing, it apparently happens fairly often. I see messages like
"autoconverted from quoted-printable to 8bit" in message headers associated
with text parts all the time. (Such messages are especially amusing when the
message is subsequently reencoded, as sometimes happens.) Of course it is only
a problem if the text wasn't in canonical form to begin with.
Changing the "9" flag on Sendmail's mailer descriptions into an "8" seems
to increase the sanity of the process (and the likelyhood of verifying
PGP/MIME signed messages).