Subject: sending mail with mime(QP)

From: [email-masked] (Albert Lee)
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 18:57:03 +0900

Hi, I would like to ask how I can send mail with Quoted-printable instead
of Base64 on pine. Whenever I send out a mail, it says the encoding as
base64 in headfile. Is there anyway that I can change the encoding as QP?
Thanks in advance,

Albert

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From: Pivo A Zmrzlina <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 07:31:14 -0500 (EST)

> base64 in headfile. Is there anyway that I can change the encoding as QP?

    If you are talking about a plain text message, Pine scans the
message to determine whether to encode it if there are 8-bit characters,
and if the number of 8-bit characters in the message is more than about
10%, as it is more efficient to use BASE64 encoding for these messages,
Pine chooses that.
    I trust you are using a character set other than US-ASCII for a
language other than English, relying heavily on 8-bit characters
(Russian and Hebrew are two quick examples in wide usage).

    If you are talking about attached text files, the Pine tech-notes
explains the reasoning for using BASE64 encoding.  If your text file you
are attaching is ASCII, in English, or a language which uses only a few
8-bit characters, you can ^R read the file into the body of your message
and it will not be BASE64'ed.

    Again, the next release of Pine will permit you to send 8-bit text
mail as 8-bit data, instead of relying on Q-P or BASE64 encoding, when
you speak to an ESMTP 8BITMIME server (a few examples are PMDF, zmailer,
and the upcoming BSD Sendmail v8.7).

    Also, ask your system administrator to fix your news or mail software.
This is what I got when trying to reply to you:
To: Albert Lee <[email-masked]>
                                      ^^^

hacker Barry Bouwsma, MIME: <[email-masked]>  ASCII: <[email-masked]>

--hACKeD-MIME-mEssAge-BouNDaRy-666--