Subject: Re: QUOTED-PRINTABLE and line breaks.

From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 1994 16:14:08 -0800 (PST)

Kari,

Sorry about the abysmally late response to this!  Pine does indeed use
standard CRLF line breaks.  I have heard of mail delivery software that
incorrectly converts the CRLF pairs to something else, but that should
affect all incoming MIME mail.  Let us know if you need further assistance
tracking down the problem. 

Thanks for the report!

--DLM

|\ |  |\/|  David L. Miller    [email-masked]  (206) 685-6240
|/ |_ |  |  Software Engineer, Pine Development Team   (206) 685-4045 (FAX)
University of Washington, Networks & Distributed Computing
4545 15th Ave NE, Seattle WA 98105, USA

On Tue, 21 Dec 1993, Kari Sutela wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Our VMS-administrator complains that the MIME-compatible 
> VMS-EMAIL-program won't properly display pine-generated messages.  He 
> says, that if the content-transfer-encoding says quoted-printable, then 
> all linebreaks should be represented by the CRLF pair.  I took a quick 
> peek at the MIME rfc and I'm beginning to think that he's right.
> 
> Now it seems that pine does not change line breaks into CRLF pairs.  Does 
> pine behave according to MIME spec in this respect?  Have we 
> misunderstood the MIME rfc?  Are there any fixes?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> /KS
>

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From: Kari Sutela <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 19:21:10 +0200

On Sat, 19 Feb 1994, David L Miller wrote:

> incorrectly converts the CRLF pairs to something else,

No problem.  There actually was a bug in the PMDF mail user agent under
VMS which caused it to display quoted-printable mail incorrectly.  I had a
hard time in convinving our VMS admin, but that's an entirely different
story :-) Upgrading PMDF fixed it.  Thanks for the reply anyway. 

/KS