According to Alexander Robohm via mailop <[email protected]>: >I completely agree in the absence of internationalized mail. I guess the >best course of action is to support 8BITMIME, but to use it if and only >if it is needed to support SMTPUTF8. ...
It is quite common to have non-ASCII character sets in the bodies of messages with ASCII addresses. There is vastly more 8BITMIME mail than SMTPUTF8. Yes, you can QP or base64 encode your UTF-8 mail bodies but demanding that people do so in 2024 when every computer outside a history museum has 8-bit clean internal architecture is pretty perverse. R's, John PS: Note that 8BITMIME is not BINARYMIME. With 8BITMIME you can use arbitrary characters but the rules about lines ending with CR/LF still apply. BINARYMIME allows you to send arbitrary blobs of binary stuff as a MIME part, but it's not widely supported. The only large mail service that claims to do so is Outlook/Hotmail and I don't get the impression they do it correctly. -- Regards, John Levine, [email protected], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
