Re: outgoing mail encoding preference

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 03/09/2005 06:36:16 PM, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> when looking through balsa's prefs, I wonder why we offer a selection  
> for the transfer encoding (7bit, 8bit, quoted). IMHO quoted is the  
> *only* safe setting here, as 7bit would collide with all national  
> chars, and 8bit is not safe for every MTA. Any MIME compliant MUA  
> *must* accept quoted according to the RFC's. So why don't we  
> hard-code quoted for all text/something; base64 is used in ay case  
> for all other content types?
>
> Quoted is even usable for people who have prehistoric MUA's (I know  
> an astronomer who still uses elm *without* MIME support!) - the input  
> will look somewhat garbled, but it's still more or less readable.
>
> Is there anyone who *really* needs 7bit or 8bit? Otherwise I would  
> prepare a patch to remove this option completely from the project.

This selection is just a historic thing, as far as I can tell - but  
please double-check the --without-smtp build!

Pawel