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On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 02:24:29PM +0200, Juan J. Martínez wrote: > El jue, 15-04-2010 a las 13:12 +0100, Gordon Henderson escribió: > > On Thu, 15 Apr 2010, Juan J. Mart?nez wrote: > > > > > PS: I quit using pine myself in 2002, and because of the same > > > frustrating issue of the base64 encoded stuff :P > > > > Obviously I never got enough email from people in base64 for it to make a > > difference. Shame on you for having an email system that doesn't default > > to sending plain-text, or bother to check and adjust. > > It is the default, but sometimes it can't be done and Evolution falls to > base64 encoding. That's standard. Actually, I believe the standard is to use quoted-printable if possible, and base64 only if a substantial portion of the email is non-ascii. (QP is closer to plaintext, but inefficient for large amounts of non-ASCII. Base64 is more space-efficient but less readable.) User-agents are supposed to use the simplest encoding possible, or something to that effect. > I blamed others too back in 2002, but at the end... the problem was > Pine. I never tried to use Mutt, because life seems too short to learn > it (and configure it properly). mutt more or less just works, in my experience (I've been using it for years now, so I'm kind of used to it by now anyway). I tried (al)pine again recently, and although it was quite nice, using GPG was far too much hassle. -- Benjamin M. A'Lee || bma@xxxxxx || gpg: 0x166891C7 || http://bma.cx/ Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. --- Isaac Asimov
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