Re: Minutes of the SMTP meeting in St. Louis

[Greg Vaudreuil <gvaudre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark,

> You can implement typed mail without ever implementing multimedia mail
> (the Multipart type).  You can implement just the typing needed to
> send 8-bit email, but with only a tiny bit more work you can send
> binary data as well.  With a bit more work on top of that you can play
> the multimedia mail game -- if you want to.  If you don't want to,
> none of the stuff about "cookies" etc.  applies to you.

According to the current state of RFC XXXX, This is not so strait
forward.  To receive 8 bit characters, you must include an
content-type parser, and content-encoding parser, and at least 3
decoding routines (Base 64, Hex, and quoted printable) and at least
one encoding routine.  While this does not mean the cookie parsing
needs to be done, it is still a lot of work just to type in French.

Greg Vaudreuil