Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and munpack
Ned Freed <NED@innosoft.com> Wed, 14 February 1996 18:33 UTC
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Subject: Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and munpack
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> I then asked this group who was right: munpack or the software which encoded > the body part with quoted-printable. The consensus is that the q-p software > is right and munpack is wrong. > We've had to advise the customer to stop using munpack because of this. (We > may even have to put out a general customer advisory on this issue.) I agree, albeit reluctantly, with this assessment. Speaking as someone with a MIME implementation that might very well elect to use Q-P for non-text data should it prove to be more efficient, I'm going to have to consider pointing people at a minimal MIME agent other than MUNPACK in the future. Ned
- questions on QP, non-text attachments and munpack hansen
- Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and mun… Jamie Zawinski
- Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and mun… Ned Freed
- Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and mun… Jamie Zawinski
- Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and mun… hansen
- Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and mun… hansen
- Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and mun… Ned Freed
- Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and mun… John Gardiner Myers
- Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and mun… John Gardiner Myers
- Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and mun… hansen
- Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and mun… hansen
- Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and mun… Ned Freed
- Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and mun… Keith Moore
- Re: questions on QP, non-text attachments and mun… Ned Freed