Re: Legal chars in 821bis
Pete Resnick <presnick@qualcomm.com> Fri, 26 March 1999 22:45 UTC
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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 16:42:03 -0600
To: Jeffrey Streifling <streje@wwc.edu>
From: Pete Resnick <presnick@qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: Legal chars in 821bis
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On 3/26/99 at 12:08 PM -0800, Jeffrey Streifling wrote:
>I've hunted through the draft and through some archived comments and
>it looks like the issue of what to do with control characters in
>SMTP has yet to be addressed.
>
>Although there seems to be a leaning towards passing lines (and
>messages) through unchanged, nobody has defined a suitable
>representation for how control characters should be presented to the
>user.
SMTP is the transport protocol. It has nothing at all to do with
presentation to the user. Therefore how to deal with control
characters, unless it in some way impacts transport, is justifiably
left out of this document.
On the other hand, the RFC 822 rewrite on the message format:
<ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-drums-msg-fmt-07.txt>
does address these issues. See section 3.5 and section 5.
The message format is where to properly deal with these issues, which
it does. SMTP should not address this.
pr
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- Legal chars in 821bis Jeffrey Streifling
- Re: Legal chars in 821bis Pete Resnick
- Re: Legal chars in 821bis John C Klensin
- Re: Legal chars in 821bis Kai Henningsen