Crystal Kolipe wrote in <zscwxx+zedwrz...@exoticsilicon.com>: |On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 12:36:48AM +0200, Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: |> Non-7-bit clean headers need RFC 2047 (and/or RFC 2231) encoding. | |The use of MIME encoded words to encode header content is no longer |considered best practice. See, for example RFC 6532.
Yes there is SMTPUTF8, which is a special protocol. The /global MIME thing i personally have _never_ seen in practice. I have downloaded the RFC on 2012-07-23. |But as Omar said, let's get the basics of any new functionality |sorted out before jumping ahead. We don't really want to break |mail in some unexpected and non-obvious way. I cannot comment on that. I am pretty sure i have never seen /global yet. Ie an archive search here reveals only three mails where i mention them in the text; the last is from a thread from nmh-work...@nongnu.org from July this year, and let me shamelessly quote Ken Hornstein who said on 2023-07-23 The message/global MIME type (a RFC822 message but with UTF-8 everywhere) has a suggested file extension of ".u8msg", which I have never personally seen "in the wild" anywhere. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
