Re: if you really want utf-8 headers...

On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 01:34:38 -0500 Keith Moore <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> Okay, I still see zero justification for utf-8 headers.  The 
> improvement in transmission and storage efficiency is miniscule. They 
> make both user agents and mail transports more complex and less 
> reliable, because MTAs need to have conversion code (which will break 
> messages and cause delivery failures) and UAs need to be able to handle 
> old messages that use RFC 2047 (resulting in multiple code paths and 
> additional failure modes).

I am completely in agreement with this.   I still see a huge delay in 
transport upgrades for features like DSN, 8BITMIME and PIPELINE because, 
basically, everybody has to play to make it useful.   If you *require* a 
transport upgrade by SMTP extension you will be looking at at decade long 
deployment.

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Steve Hole
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ACI Worldwide
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