8bit mime support? (linked to thunderbird issue)

Steffen Nurpmeso steffen at sdaoden.eu
Fri Aug 1 17:34:01 CEST 2025


JL wrote in
 <d85ef4f1-0fe7-42b9-8be0-a6e88168f7d2 at dolce-energy.com>:

It also depends you know.
Ie normally MUAs then "classify" whatever they create a MIME Part
for, and this classification may use some ratio of XY characters
to choose the one or the other transfer encoding.  See also
libmagic(1); my MUA differs to that for example (last i looked) as
we also wave through \v/\x0B/VT and \f=\x0C=NP, and we ignore ESC,
ie, may use quoted-printable not base64.

--steffen
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