Subject: Re: Turning off QP

From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 10:30:54 -0400

On 25 Jun 1996, Sven Guckes wrote:

> [email-masked] (Ralf Gerhard):
> > a few days ago I have installed pine-3.94 on a SCO machine (3.2.4.2).
> > How can I turn off 'quoted printable' transfer encoding?
> > I've found nothing in the FAQ or in the menu SETUP CONFIGURE.
> 
> Hint:  Do not use 8bit characters.  Then there will be no need for QP.

    That's all very nice, but it is quite parochial for the English-
speaking world to impose its 7-bit nonsense on the rest of the world
(and I say this as a native English-speaker).  I participate in a busy
mailing list concerning languages, and to be limited to 7-bit US-ASCII
without even European accented letters is absurd.

    With this particular mailing list I can see 8-bit characters with
no problem using Pine, although some readers report that they cannot. 
The list owner recently announced that the software at the site (in
Denmark) was soon going MIME-compliant and that participants should
make sure that their mail readers are MIME-compliant.  Fortunately Pine
is.

    It seems to be the "other guy" or some intermediate mail transports
that either mash on the MIME headers or cannot handle QP at all.  (I
have never even checked to see whether the mail from this list is
actually coming in QP and being automatically converted back to 8-bit
by Pine.)

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From: [email-masked] (Sven Guckes)
Date: 25 Jun 1996 05:44:31 GMT

Sven

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From: Vladimír Solnický {Vladimir Solnicky} <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 18:01:20 +0200 (METDST)

> Hint:  Do not use 8bit characters.  Then there will be no need for QP.

Maybe more completely: Do not use eight-bit characters _AND_ do not send
letters with lines longer then 1000 characters. Then there will be no need
for QP. 

V. S.

Vladimír Solnický, ÚTIA AV ČR, Pod vodárenskou věží 4,
182 08 Praha 8-Libeň, +42 2 6605/2364, telefax: +42 2 6884677,
[email-masked], http://www.utia.cas.cz/user_data/vs/vs-home-cz.html

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From: [email-masked] (Ralf Gerhard)
Date: 24 Jun 1996 12:22:30 GMT

Hi,

How can I turn off 'quoted printable' transfer encoding? I 've found nothing
in the FAQ or in the menu SETUP CONFIGURE.

Thanks in advance

	Ralf
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From: Marc Herbert <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 21:54:05 +0200

> Hint:  Do not use 8bit characters.  Then there will be no need for QP.

And if I want to send 8bit characters, without QP,
and I've got no E-SMTP ? What can I do ?
Wait for 3.95  perhaps ?

-- 
Marc Herbert

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 19:50:19 -0400

> and I've got no E-SMTP ? What can I do ?

    You can send your text as a MIME attachment (specified in the
header field -- use "Rich Headers" if necessary) _provided_ your
recipient is using a mail reader that can handle MIME attachments.