Your explanation is perfect Paul! This was for something else, to explain somebody with physical evidences (the links), that the person was wrong!
Many thanks, Jorge, > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Paul J Stevens > Sent: quarta-feira, 30 de Setembro de 2009 8:28 > To: DBMail mailinglist > Subject: Re: [Dbmail] Standard for encoded headers (Offtopic) > > Shane Kerr wrote: > > Jorge, > > > > On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 16:22 +0100, Jorge Bastos wrote: > > > >> Can you point me to the IETF link where it says that the emails > >> headers MUST be encoded and never in PLAIN ASCII? > > Plain ASCII is always OK! Only non-ascii characters should be encoded. > > > > > Must they? > > > > I have been getting familiar with the IMAP RFC lately, and it says > this: > > > > Note that headers (part specifiers HEADER or MIME, or the > > header portion of a MESSAGE/RFC822 part), MUST be 7-bit; 8- > bit > > characters are not permitted in headers. > > > > http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3501.html > > That rfc snippet doesn't say anything about message structure, just > about IMAP responses. The reference for message structure is rfc5322 > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322 > > while the latest RFC dealing with non-ascii text in headers is > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2047 > > Even though formally 8bit headers are not allowed, it was decided long > ago to liberally accept such headers. Dbmail doesn't care one way or > the > other. However, FETCH responses containing part specifiers HEADER or > MIME must by 7-bit. > > I'm pretty sure dbmail is not compliant here. I havent verified, but > reading the code (which I wrote three years ago or so) it looks like > we're returning HEADER and MIME parts as-is. > > -- > ________________________________________________________________ > Paul Stevens paul at nfg.nl > NET FACILITIES GROUP GPG/PGP: 1024D/11F8CD31 > The Netherlands________________________________http://www.nfg.nl > _______________________________________________ > DBmail mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.fastxs.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbmail _______________________________________________ DBmail mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.fastxs.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
