Re: the right bug severity in case of mbox formats

2012-11-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-11-29 01:49:55 +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 22:06 +, Darren Salt wrote: It would make sense to have that enabled by default, and to ensure that all software in Debian which produces MIME quoted-printable does this, or at least can do this. I

Re: the right bug severity in case of mbox formats

2012-11-28 Thread Simon McVittie
On 28/11/12 15:34, Darren Salt wrote: Having just viewed the raw text of my message (as sent), there's one other little wrinkle which I already knew but had failed to consider and which makes testing of this useless: gpg handles any 'From ' lines itself in a reversible manner, using '- ' as

Re: the right bug severity in case of mbox formats

2012-11-28 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Simon McVittie s...@debian.org, 2012-11-28, 19:16: If you don't restrict yourself to avoiding MIME, any piece of text (or indeed any bytestring) becomes losslessly representable. In particular, MUAs supporting quoted-printable and/or Base64 can avoid sending messages matching /^From / by

Re: the right bug severity in case of mbox formats

2012-11-28 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Jakub Wilk may or may not have written... * Simon McVittie s...@debian.org, 2012-11-28, 19:16: If you don't restrict yourself to avoiding MIME, any piece of text (or indeed any bytestring) becomes losslessly representable. In particular, MUAs supporting quoted-printable and/or

Re: the right bug severity in case of mbox formats

2012-11-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 22:06 +, Darren Salt wrote: It would make sense to have that enabled by default, and to ensure that all software in Debian which produces MIME quoted-printable does this, or at least can do this. I agree... but let me add a few notes: 1) Most programs I know of (at

Re: the right bug severity in case of mbox formats

2012-11-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 19:16 +, Simon McVittie wrote: * There are certain messages which are losslessly representable in SMTP without using MIME, but not losslessly representable in mboxo format without using MIME; yes,... but of course MIME standards neither demand any quoted-printable