Re: MIME QP encoded good/bad ...

From: Kai Henningsen (kaih@khms.westfalen.de)
Date: Mon Oct 16 2000 - 17:37:00 EST


alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) wrote on 09.10.00 in <E13ieUM-0002M4-00@the-village.bc.nu>:

> > I do use PINE, and I still think QP is buggy and a stupid excersize. Mail
> > delivery should have been cleaned up, not the user agent. You could have
> > done the equivalent of QP inside sendmail, and none of the stupid QP
> > issues would ever ever have happened (sure, people with old sendmails
> > would have seen the QP-encoding, but that's THEIR problem).
>
> Umm you can. Sendmail supports arbitary delivery agents, you just need to
> write a suitable one in your 'copious' free time

Such software exists. Stuff like emil, for example ...

MfG Kai
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