Re: Why rewrite QP-encoded messages when t he receiver cannot take 8BITMIME?

Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]> Sun, 30 Jun 2024 19:41:09 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.mail.imap.courier.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Alessandro Vesely writes:

> Hm... That code uses the same flag, has8bitchars, for both aspects.  A vain  
> QP-encoding, which could be undone, and an unencoded message, which must be  
> rewritten if the receiver doesn't take 8bit.  Thus, the meaning of that  
> flag, at the entity level, depends on the entity's declared encoding,  
> assuming that it's congruous.  At the message level, it becomes a riddle.

I looked at this again and I agree. I just uploaded build 20240630 that adds  
a separate indicator just for raw 8 bit content, that feeds into  
COMCTLFILE_8BIT, that drives reencoding. I can set up a rig to test it, but  
it'll take some time, perhaps someone can take it for a test drive.

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