On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 23:01:38 +0000, Grinsell, Don wrote: > > ... >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > ... > I've long wondered about this. SMTP, on receiving mail and transferring it to the spool translates ASCII to EBCDIC. But it doesn't modify the MIME headers to reflect what it did, does it?
Seems wrong to me. Likewise the inverse transformation outgoing. I know by experience that some MTAs convert 8-bit<->Q-P, modify the Content-Transfer-Encoding:, and even add a X-Comment: line acknowledging the modification. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
