Le Mon 16/10/2006, Allan Odgaard disait
On 16. Oct 2006, at 14:20, Erwan David wrote:
It seems that OE is in this case... (why can it not send in 8bit encoding when answering to a f=f message, if it is not broken ?)
So if you send a f=f letter to an OE user, and he replies, the reply is encoded with QP, but had you not sent it as f=f, it would be 8 bit? That is a rather peculiar pattern, as whether OE can send the reply as 7 bit or 8 bit would depend on which SMTP it goes through.
Yes it is... and yes OE is a very special thing..
That said, sending a 7 bit QP reply is not in anyway broken, it is in fact what most mailers do, since you can’t blindly assume that SMTP’s will support 8 bit.
It makes some burden on the receiving end which is not wanted.
And MUAs not f=f aware will show 1 line per paragraph, which is ugly and may be inconvenient (wrapping in the middle of a word or not showing the whole line).
No they will not. Take my second reply in this thread, if you view it in Mail it appears first as a quoted paragraph and then a non-quoted paragraph. Both flow to the width of the window.
Ok, so it must be that my MUA (mutt) is NOT f=f aware in sending. It is possible, but since I cannot find any other mailer which can correctly handle threading, ML and other prioritary features...