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Re: [ietf-smtp] Quoted-Printable-8bit

2021-03-29 10:57:17
On 29/03/2021 05:07, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:

Sorry, OOPS, I meant BINARYMIME...

BINARYMIME requires the CHUNKING extension; it doesn't work with the
DATA/dot-stuffing method of transferring a message.

Quoted-Printable-8bit & quoted-unprintable are ideas that work with the
8-bit MIME Transport extension (RFC-6152).
That is, more efficient and/or otherwise more useful ways of transport
encoding for 8-bit channels.

Interestingly, 8BITMIME is almost universally adopted. BINARYMIME not so
much.


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