[KLUG Members] MIME and mail

[Peter Buxton]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:33:48PM -0500, Adam Williams wrote:

> I see MIME conversions in e-mail headers all the time,  I'd consider
> it normal.

Cool.

> Not certain how it would save space.

base64 encoding wastes +-25% compared to straight binary. But now I see
that it doesn't do anything to base64 encoded jpeg. Hmm.

> I've seen this hash out on other lists.  Generally sendmail fols say
> "Yes, not all hosts are 8bit clean."

Hmmm. Yeah, I would go with the exim crowd and say that mail hosts not
8bit clean should be behind a scrubbing mail relay. :-) Cool, I'd just
never seen it before.

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