Re: Syntax validation of articles by injecting agents

[Richard Clayton <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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In message <Kvu3Ht.BG1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Charles Lindsey
<chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
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>In <7Ey9XHElGzQLFAQU@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Richard Clayton <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
>writes:
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>>In message <KvrvuC.F57@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Charles Lindsey
>><chl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
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>>>But I don't think RFC 2049 ever intended to imply that MIME-Version was
>>>needed for a message that did not actually use any of the MIME features.
>
>>Hardly on topic for this list, but yes that's exactly what it means, and
>>what it was intended to mean.  It's no big deal for a client to generate
>>the header field, so it's hardly onerous!  (see this message for an
>>example of a compliant client)
>
>Then how do you account for the option of not including in in RFC 2047?

I think it's saying that you must expect MUAs to parse encoded words
without checking if the Mime-Version: header field is or is not present
(and giving permission for MUAs to be optimised that way)

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richard                                                   Richard Clayton

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