On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> This brings to my mind about the differences between my and uw-imap
> implementation.. BODYSTRUCTURE description says that fields should be
> defaulted as necessary but nothing more, so I don't think I'm doing
> anything wrong exactly, but would it still be better to change these?

Yes, I think that you should change both of these.

> If there's no Content-Transfer-Encoding, I default to 8bit instead of
> 7bit. Seems safer to me. I've got a few such mails with 8bit content.

There is no such thing as a standards-compliant message without a
Content-Transfer-Encoding that is not also 7bit.

> If there's no charset in Content-Type, I don't send it. uw-imap seems to
> send us-ascii if content-type is text/*.

There is no such thing as a standards-compliant message without a charset
that is not also US-ASCII.

-- Mark --

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