Re: The issue of mime parsing

Stefan Karrmann <[email protected]>:

> Rickard Armiento (Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 11:43:50AM +0100):
>> I'm not sure I fully understand what you mean by "MIME store" a file.
>> It sounds to me as you are thinking of storing the parts as separate
>> files, but in some kind of MIME-specified ASCII-encoding? Since a
>> new im2000 protocol replacing SMTP can be designed to allow full
>> binary transfer of files, I do not understand why any data during the
>> send-delivery cycle needs to be ASCII-encoded?
>
> IM2000 should use 8bit MIME encoding and support mainly/only MIME
> multipart.

you surely don't want to exclude CJK contents, you mean more or less
transparent, with encodings agreed upon by the endpoints, right?

  clemens