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Re: MIME autoconversion
- To: dahms at ifk20 dot mach dot uni-karlsruhe dot de, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: MIME autoconversion
- From: jeffdbREMOVETHIS at netzone dot com (Mikey)
- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 00:26:44 GMT
- Organization: Never
- References: <009BAD9F.66F6B040.24218@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de>
- Reply-To: jeffdbREMOVETHIS at netzone dot com
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997 00:55:52 +0200 (METDST), you wrote:
>Hi Peter, you wrote:
>
>: This makes perfectly good sense to me - incoming sendmail converts QP
>: to 8bit - outgoing converts 8 bit to QP. Business as usual for an
>: 8-bit site on a 7-bit net...
>
>Obviously this makes no sense to me:
>- I receive directly from cygnus via SMTP over TCP which is 8bit clean.
>- I just checked yesterday that RFC2200 still lists MIME as draft/elective.
>- My mailer doesn't understand MIME but handles 8bit/latin1 just fine.
> So why should I upgrade before MIME is promoted to standard/required?
>
Um because you want to be able to read all your mail?
>
>Bye, Heribert (dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de)
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Mikey
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