Quoting Michael M Slusarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Could someone please explain how to avoid quoted printable for the >> content transfer encoding of the message body? I'd like to see IMP >> v4.1.5 use 8-bit MIME negotiation whenever possible, but that doesn't >> seem to be happening in my case. > > Um, why? 8-bit encoded messages are illegal per the RFCs so IMP will > *never* send a message 8bit.
Sorry, but I was referring to transfer encodings that are used to represent 8-bit binary data with characters from the 7-bit ASCII character set. See RFC 1652. It's good for supporting characters outside the US-ASCII range. Exim4 has support for this with settings such as "accept_8bitmime". I know it works, because when I telnet to my server and issue an EHLO command, one of its responses will be "250-8BITMIME". As for clients, Alpine 0.99 can be configured with "Feature-List=enable-8bit-esmtp-negotiation". If, e.g. I then use Alpine to send a message with the UTF-8 character set and some Cyrillic text, it will include the header "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT". When viewing the message headers with IMP4, it's the very first one displayed. Right now, the messages I send all have "Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable". Cheers, Jaap -- IMP mailing list - Join the hunt: http://horde.org/bounties/#imp Frequently Asked Questions: http://horde.org/faq/ To unsubscribe, mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
