Re: MIME QP encoded good/bad ...

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Mon Oct 16 2000 - 20:26:33 EST


Followup to: <7o2hjdVXw-B@khms.westfalen.de>
By author: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> 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 ...
>

In the case of sendmail, just add F=9 to the appropriate delivery
agent.

        -hpa

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