Re: rfc2231 implementations?

So far, we have two known writers (kmail and apple mail) and four known 
readers (eudora/mac, teamware, kmail, apple mail).

Ingo Klöcker writes:
> Am Dienstag, 18. Juli 2006 17:29 schrieb Arnt Gulbrandsen:
>>  I can't remember ever seeing a 2231-encoded message in the wild. Are 
>>  there implementations? Is there hope that a message using 2231 
>>  syntax will be understood by anyone?
>
> Not sure what exactly you mean, but KMail does, of course, create 
> 2231-encoded headers for attachments with non-ASCII names.

The question could be rephrased as: Can I assume that an attachment name 
encoded according to RFC 2231 will be correctly decoded by the 
recipient?

> Though, much to my dismay, KMail also has a Microsoft-compatibility 
> mode for creating those headers in Microsoft's RFC-violating format.

I suspect that means "no, you can't assume that".

Arnt