Subject: MIME: Content-transfer-encoding

From: [email-masked] (Alexander List)
Date: 21 Oct 1996 03:09:09 GMT

Hi,

I'd like to change the following behaviour in PINE:
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE

I'd like to have this 8-BIT. Is there a configuration option to change this?

Thanks for any hints...

Alex
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Alexander List <[email-masked]>
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From: [email-masked] (Marcin Cieslak)
Date: 24 Oct 1996 17:54:00 GMT

>I'd like to have this 8-BIT. Is there a configuration option to change 

Pine is stictly MIME and ESMTP RFC compliant. First, you have to enable
esmtp 8bit negotiation in pine setup.
However, your sendmail (of a sender) and sedmails of all recipients must be 
able to handle 8bit ESMTP mail, otherwise it will be converted to 
QUOTED-PRINTABLE.

To check this, telnet to your mail host, port 25 and type:

EHLO my-host

If you got a response containing:
 
250-8BITMIME

then your sendmail accepts 8 bit mail. If not, you may need to recompile it.
However, with MIME compliant mail utility, like pine, you should get 
QUOTED-PRINTABLE encoding converted back top eight bit, so you shouldn't 
worry. 

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