Does GnuPG implement MIME support?

[Nathan Thompson-Amato]

Thomas Roessler wrote:

> > I'm a bit confused.  RFC 822 says it only allows ASCII
> > characters, and I could've sworn ASCII was 7-bit.  Do
> > you just mean that I need to make sure that restriction
> > is enforced?
> 
> Yes.  There is this thing called 8bit-MIME which is
> supported by some ESMTP transport agents, and generated by
> lots of MUAs.  In practice, you may encounter structures
> like this one:
> 
>         multipart/mixed [8bit]
>         |
>         +-- multipart/mixed [8bit]
>         |   +-- text/plain [8bit]       (*)
>         |   `-- image/jpeg [base64]
>         `-- text/plain [quoted-printable]
> 
> When forwarding or signing this, you'd have to recode the
> inner text/plain attachment (*), and change the encoding
> on all the multipart/mixed to 7bit.

Blech.  OK, I'll see what I can do.

Thanks,

Nathan