Re: 2822upd-04 body content restrictions

On 1/27/08 at 11:41 AM -0500, Bruce Lilly wrote:

>The MIME RFCs work harmoniously with RFC 822 as every MIME message 
>is a valid RFC 822

This is demonstrably false with regard to 8-bit and binary messages. 
 From RFC 822:

      message     =  fields *( CRLF *text )       ; Everything after
                                                  ;  first null line
                                                  ;  is message body

      text        =  <any CHAR, including bare    ; => atoms, specials,
                      CR & bare LF, but NOT       ;  comments and
                      including CRLF>             ;  quoted-strings are
                                                  ;  NOT recognized.

      CHAR        =  <any ASCII character>        ; (  0-177,  0.-127.)

MIME is an extension of [2]822, which allows for more stuff than 
those documents. Characters above 127 do not belong in 2822[upd].

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