Re: Charset

[John Stracke <jstracke@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doug Royer wrote:

> John Stracke wrote:
>
> > Doug, you're resisting changing iCalendar because of the deployed 
> > base of CUAs; but what about the much larger deployed base of MUAs? 
> > If we want to be able to use iMIP, we cannot require that MUAs be 
> > modified to transport iCalendar safely.
>
> No modification is needed in a MUA, they work already as MUAs do
> support MIME.

False.  Once again: the step of transporting the attachment from the 
MIME body to the helper application is not MIME-based.  The only cases 
where the CUA gets the MIME headers are those where the CUA is part of 
the MUA.

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