Subject: Re: enable-8bit-esmtp-negotiation

From: PASZTOR Miklos <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 14:25:59 +0200

On Sun, 31 Mar 1996, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?krem=BEsk=E1_HO=D8=C8ICE?= wrote:

  Well, this carbage comes from PINE not understanding MIME (RFC1522)
  in mail headers. Is this on the wish list of the Pine developers ?
[...]

>     I don't want to speak for the Pine team here, but based on the message
> you sent me and experiments I made with it, I think you found a bug.
> 
>     It seems like Pine will send short messages in Russian, Greek, or any
> other mostly-8-bit character set, with 8BIT Content-Transfer-Encoding when
> conditions permit (an ESMTP 8BITMIME server).

 I do confirm this. Pine works the following way:
 
 - If most of bytes of the message is above 80 hex, Pine decodes it
 base64. It's plausible since base64 is more efficient in this case.

 - Othervise it sends it quoted-printable or 8bit, depending
 on the enable-8bit setting in the Pine config.
 
 To fix this one should simply reverse the if statements.
 I will look at the code and try to fix it. 
 At least I am trying to find some time to do it ;-).

 Regards,
 Miklós
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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 11:33:04 -0700 (PDT)

On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, PASZTOR Miklos wrote:

> Errors-To: [email-masked]
> Sender: [email-masked]
> To: [email-masked]
> From: PASZTOR Miklos <[email-masked]>
> Subject: Re: enable-8bit-esmtp-negotiation
> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 14:25:59 +0200
> Message-ID: <[email-masked]>
> References: <[email-masked]> <[email-masked]> <[email-masked]>
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE
> In-Reply-To: <[email-masked]>
> 
> 

The current Pine 3.93 (and 3.92) release does support RFC1522...

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