On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, Jostein wrote:
It's been ages since I used Pine, but I think it encodes (escapes) the
non-ascii
letters in a peculiar way.
IIRC, there used to be all sorts of problems with mapping characters between
Windows and Pine in the older days of the 'Net...
Thanks, I will look into it.
And so I did. From <http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1996/11/msg00141.html>
"AFAIK, pine uses the QUOTED-PRINTABLE encoding whenever the message itself
contains non-ascii characters. And that is good, because it's the standard. You
can't send 8-bit (weird) characters over (possible) 7-bit nodes."
However, <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=pine-info&m=96821951105671&w=2>
" FEATURE: enable-8bit-to-smtp-server
<snip>
However, there are now Internet standards that allow for unencoded 8bit
exchange of messages between cooperating systems. Setting this feature tells
Pine to try to negotiate unencoded 8bit transmission during the sending
process. Should the negotiation fail, Pine will fall back to its ordinary
encoding rules.
Note, this feature relies on your system's mail transport agent or
configured "SMTP-Server" having the negotiation mechanism introduced
in "Extended SMTP" (ESMTP) and the specific extension called
"8BITMIME"."
I tried it and it does not work; I assume that our SMTP server does
not have ESMTP.
Safe in the knowledge pine is standards-focused,
Kostas
