Re: MIME QP encoded good/bad ...

2000-10-16 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Cox) wrote on 09.10.00 in ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I do use PINE, and I still think QP is buggy and a stupid excersize. Mail > > > delivery should h

Re: MIME QP encoded good/bad ...

2000-10-16 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Cox) wrote on 09.10.00 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I do use PINE, and I still think QP is buggy and a stupid excersize. Mail > > delivery should have been cleaned up, not the user agent. You could have > > done the equivalent of QP inside sendmail, and none of the stupid

Re: MIME QP encoded good/bad ...

2000-10-09 Thread Alan Cox
> I do use PINE, and I still think QP is buggy and a stupid excersize. Mail > delivery should have been cleaned up, not the user agent. You could have > done the equivalent of QP inside sendmail, and none of the stupid QP > issues would ever ever have happened (sure, people with old sendmails > wo

Re: MIME QP encoded good/bad ...

2000-10-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Matti Aarnio wrote: > > Linus, please use MUTT or PINE -- hmm... you do use PINE, so what > is the problem at receiving MIME attachments, or QP encoded material > at all ? (Aside of pine possibly saving/piping non-decoded QP > text/plain message int

[ot] Re: MIME QP encoded good/bad ...

2000-10-04 Thread Daniel Phillips
Matti Aarnio wrote: > Least of the wonders being increasing number of EBCDIC systems appearing in the net. EBCDIC code: Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code - a platypus if there ever was one. Code - I thought I already knew that Interchange - So there's a code that doesn't? Deci

Re: MIME QP encoded good/bad ...

2000-10-04 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 09:51:18PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Matti Aarnio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes Linus, ASCII is fine, but then the ENTIRE MESSAGE must be > > in 7-bit ASCII only. A single 8-bit char anywhere makes worlds > >

Re: MIME QP encoded good/bad ...

2000-10-03 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matti Aarnio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes Linus, ASCII is fine, but then the ENTIRE MESSAGE must be > in 7-bit ASCII only. A single 8-bit char anywhere makes worlds > of difference to the rules. (E.g. 8-bit char in .signature > may for

Re: MIME QP encoded good/bad ...

2000-10-03 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 09:10:17AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Matti Aarnio wrote: > > > >Just FYI. THAT can't be MIME (quoted printable) error. > > Oh, but it is. Oh, so you destroyed the evidence ? I see... > >The '=' is very special in MIME QP