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

At 15:29 04/01/05 -0500, Keith Moore wrote:

>Indeed, and seen at that level, it's a laudible goal.  The question is
>whether it's worth it to upgrade the entire email infrastructure in
>order to provide the specific feature of IMAs, when those IMAs might not
>be widely used.  Especially given that
>a) we can provide the same service without such an expensive upgrade, and
>probably without nearly so much disruption, or

Even potentially without an SMTP extension, I think that defining
a new header format and a way to down- and upgrade is important,
because only this will allow things such as simplified clients
based on upgraded delivery agents,... And once we are there,
defining an SMTP extension isn't really a big deal, although
adoption may take quite a while.


>b) we could use the expensive upgrade to drastically improve email
>service in many other ways than just to provide IMAs.

If it were up to you alone to choose, what would you do in that upgrade?

Regads,    Martin.