On Saturday 01 March 2003 01:00, Claus Färber wrote:
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It also includes a draft for a quoted-binary Extended CTE that allows
efficient transfer of binary data over 8BITMIME environments.
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There's a problem hiding in the claims that deflate-8bit and friends can
be sent over 8BITMIME-supporting channels. Consider a MIA sending a
message with deflate-8bit body to a SMTP server announcing 8BITMIME.
If the server isn't prepared to reject unknown charsets in the body of
messages (and which server is?), it will accept the message and thus
the responsibility for delivery.
The next hop doesn't support 8BITMIME. No problem. This is an
intelligent server that acts by the gateway model of rfc1652 and tries
to recode the offending body parts. Whooops... bounce. :-(
Am I missing something?
Marc
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