Subject: Re: Disabling MIME-encoding

From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 1994 11:41:43 -0800

Pine 3.92 will support 8bit messages via ESMTP servers that support 8BITMIME. 

|\ |  |\/|  David L. Miller    [email-masked]  (206) 685-6240
|/ |_ |  |  Software Engineer, Pine Development Team   (206) 685-4045 (FAX)
University of Washington, Networks & Distributed Computing, JE-20
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On 4 Nov 1994, Roar Foshaug wrote:

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> From: roarf@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE (Roar Foshaug)
> Newsgroups: comp.mail.pine
> Subject: Disabling MIME-encoding
> Date: 4 Nov 1994 09:32:01 GMT
> Organization: University of Trondheim, Norway
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> Is there some way to disable the MIME-encoding og 8-bit messages? 
> In Norway the ISO-8859-1 character set is becoming a standard, but
> Pine insists on using MIME encoding, placing =E5 and suchlike for the
> above-128 character codes. 
> 
> Most people in Norway do not have mailclients that understand MIME, so
> it looks awful. We would like to send 'clean' 8-bit ISO. The alternative
> is to use 7bit (Norwegian ascii, replacing some brackets with our
> "extra" alphabet characters), but we'd rather prefer 8-bit, to help
> push people away from 7bit to 8bit. For communication with English-
> speaking countries there will be no difference, as the English 
> alphabet never uses the eigth bit.
> 
> Any hints? Please send me mail (see below), and I'll post a summary if
> I get anything useful. Thanks.
> 
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From: roarf@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE. (Roar Foshaug)
Date: 4 Nov 1994 09:32:01 GMT