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

2021-03-30 06:32:02
On 30/03/2021 09:52, Paul Smith wrote:
On 30/03/2021 02:12, Gene Hightower wrote:
I think the practical answer is that most email is transferred over
TCP these days which is a stream of 8-bit bytes. You sort of get
8-bits for free without doing anything special. You have to work at
*not* supporting 8BITMIME. So the bar for this feature was very low.

So, what do you do if you have an 8-bit message and try to send it to a 
server which doesn't support 8BITMIME?

https://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html

Summary: 8BITMIME has been irrelevant for years.
You send it.

--
Cheers,
  Jeremy

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