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?
Using Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions for non-extended parts of emails does seem a broken idea to me. I realise that some people advocate using MIME for everything, because it's there, but the amount of MIMEd email nasties means that my bulk email client runs plain-text-only until I tell it otherwise.
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.
Ah, yes, that rules out 8-bit. However, RFC 3156 says: "all data signed according to this protocol MUST be constrained to 7 bits" ...which means, if you're not sending 8-bit, you don't need to qp it. KMail seems to be qp-ing everything regardless. It's not as bad as gmail, which base64s everything regardless for some users!
Hope that explains it,