R. David Murray added the comment: Oh, and to clarify: the backward compatibility is that if code works with X.Y.Z, it should work with X.Y.Z+1. So even though correctly handling binary mail would indeed require someone to reexamine their code, if things happen to be working OK for them (eg: their program only needs to handle utf-8 email), we don't want to break their working program.
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