On 1/27/08 at 11:41 AM -0500, Bruce Lilly wrote:
The MIME RFCs work harmoniously with RFC 822 as every MIME message
is a valid RFC 822
This is demonstrably false with regard to 8-bit and binary messages.
From RFC 822:
message = fields *( CRLF *text ) ; Everything after
; first null line
; is message body
text = <any CHAR, including bare ; => atoms, specials,
CR & bare LF, but NOT ; comments and
including CRLF> ; quoted-strings are
; NOT recognized.
CHAR = <any ASCII character> ; ( 0-177, 0.-127.)
MIME is an extension of [2]822, which allows for more stuff than
those documents. Characters above 127 do not belong in 2822[upd].
pr
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