Re: A proposal

[kankkune@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Risto Kankkunen)]

> It is clear from the discussions thus far -- as argued by Dave
> Crocker, Einar Stefferud, myself, and many others -- that no SMTP
> changes are really necessary because we can encode 8 bit multipart data
> in a form that can be passed through SMTP as it currently exists.

I agree. We could even start working on the RFC822 issues (perhaps on a
separate group?) before the SMTP issue is decided. RFC822-extended
shouldn't rely on any extended-SMTP behaviour.

Ideally, I'd like to see the SMTP spec extended to _allow_ 8-bit and/or
binary transfer. If the 822-group decides to flag multimedia-messages
with "Content: uuencode-foo", we could gradually switch to "Content:
foo" in the future, if it would seem feasible at that time.

Risto

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