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

 


On 27/02/13 22:38, Ray Smith wrote:
> 
> On Feb 27, 2013 10:18 PM, "Gordon Henderson" <gordon+lug@xxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:gordon%2Blug@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>> 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 <http://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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> 
> Came to me fine on my tablet.
> 
> Ray
> Sent from my Nexus 7
> 
> 
> 

Most email I get is in pure text and with 60% plus with Chinese or
Japanese or Korean part subject lines as from far east.
I only transmit in pure text and they reply same way.
Thunderbird handles this ok.
-- le
Regards
Eion MacDonald

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