From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 19 12:23:42 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA09081 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 12:23:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA09026 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 12:23:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA16970 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 21:23:11 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA01156 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 21:23:11 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id VAA00914 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 19 Dec 1996 21:05:41 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612192005.VAA00914@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 8-bit characters in gecos field To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 21:05:40 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Ollivier Robert at "Dec 19, 96 07:29:00 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to David Nugent: > > Perhaps our ports can be patched to do q-p translation if they > > don't already? Most imap2bis servers support MIME in any case. > > Automatic conversion is not always a good idea. Since mail headers are by definition restricted to 7 bit, it's the best one could do. (Remember, we were only speaking about the GECOS name that appears in a mail header.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)