Re: [LUG] 8bit email was Re: email tag

[Gordon Henderson <gordon+lug@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2013, Gordon Henderson wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Feb 2013, Simon Waters wrote:
>
> > At the risk of wandering off on a tangent I saw a claim many years back 
> > that most MTAs handle 8bit fine, so all that 7bit escaping is just so much 
> > bloat. Anyone tested this?
>
> Wonder what the list processor makes of:
>
> Â - Pound
> Î - Ohm
> Â - Half
> Ìâ - Euro
>
> 12 Ã 48 = Â
>
> although I guess these are unicode characters, but some have their top-bit 
> set.

Well it came back to me OK, but it looks like my local sendmail converted 
the incoming message to:

  X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by unicorn.drogon.net id 
r1RMDuK0029258

Hm. Probably thinks its doing me a favour. The stored version (that alpine 
stored) has 8-bit characters in it.

Oh well.

Gordon

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