Re: [Emailcore] Ticket #14: G.7.8. Review different size limits

[Viktor Dukhovni <[e-mail]>]

On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 10:42:41PM -0400, John C Klensin wrote:

> > Our MTA defaults to this as well. But it's trivial to switch
> > off, and I have no way of knowing how many sites do so.
> 
> Completely out of curiosity, as the amount of traffic that does
> not use Latin script increases (IMO, quoted-printable is far
> less useful when most of the characters are outside the ASCII
> repertoire), do either of you do the fairly minimal analysis
> needed to decide when Base64 would be more compact and no less
> useful?

No, because message sizes are rarely dominated by the text parts.  The
large attachments that dominate message sizes are typically already
Base64 encoded.  Just using quoted-printable is not a problem for the
8bit text, even when not optimal.

-- 
    Viktor.