On Friday 14 October 2005 20:09, MJ Ray wrote:
Ten's mail client (KMail) is using quoted-printable for plain text emails, which seems broken.
What, just the idea of using quoted-printable?
If so, KMail has been using qp in signed messages, and IIRC the PGP/MIME spec has the use of quoted-printable or base64 in such signed messages as a required/must.
It's a bit harsh to see that behaviour as "broken", I think.
I'd be more inclined to call it intentional and standards-compliant than broken.
Now, if you want to talk about whether the _standard_ is borken or whether I can help list harmony by doing it a different way, that's a different matter, but broken seems a bit unfair, tbh.
It should only be necessary if there's 8bit text and a known dud mailserver, or lines of more than 1000 characters. Otherwise please use Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit and everyone's happy, give or take a few spare headers.
I'm not clear on what this would achieve, would you mind elaborating please? Thanks.