Re: Rmail-mbox branch

[tomas]

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On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 07:43:02AM -0400, Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
> Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>> ... and as I pointed out to Stefan, for many users it would be
>> very convenient and would cause no harm to transcode the headers too.
>
> I could not chase down that message and I'm a little confused about
> transcoding headers to the extent that I understand them to be ASCII
> per rfc2822.  About the only way it would make sense to me to talk
> about transcoding headers would be if headers are included (also
> encoded) in the content encoding, i.e. a message that is text/html
> could have html tags in the headers.  Is this the case?  Or are you saying 
> something else?

They may be quoted-printable. AFAIK this is the only allowed way of
transcending US-ASCII in headers (but I don't know very "far").

Regards
- -- tomás
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