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Re: [ietf-smtp] Quoted-Printable-8bit

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Mon, 29 March 2021 19:10 UTC

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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: [ietf-smtp] Quoted-Printable-8bit
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It appears that Gene Hightower  <gene@digilicious.com> said:
>Quoted-Printable-8bit & quoted-unprintable are ideas that work with the
>8-bit MIME Transport extension (RFC-6152).
>That is, more efficient and/or otherwise more useful ways of transport
>encoding for 8-bit channels.

Yes, that was the idea. As Ned pointed out, people have proposed many
versions of quoted-unprintable over the years.

>Interestingly, 8BITMIME is almost universally adopted. BINARYMIME not so
>much.

It's not very surprising. 8BITMIME is trivial to implement on systems
with 8 bit bytes (all of them, this millenium), BINARYMIME very
difficult if your internal line ending is not CR-LF.

R's,
John

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