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> For email, this was true only about the mid-to-late 90s--surprisingly recent. Actually, email still is not nominally 8-bit transparent (ESMTP 8BITMIME is opt
by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 9y ago
> For email, this was true only about the mid-to-late 90s--surprisingly recent.
Actually, email still is not nominally 8-bit transparent (ESMTP 8BITMIME is optional and not supported by all MTAs), but it doesn't need to be, that's what quoted-printable and base64 are for.
- jcranmer 9y agoThe timeframe I'm using is the timeframe where you stop seeing servers mangle 8-bit email. 8BITMIME technically requires converting 8-bit bodies to QP and base64, which is generally not necessary nowadays, and some would argue that software that chooses not to implement that shouldn't advertise 8BITMIME.
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 9y ago> and some would argue that software that chooses not to implement that shouldn't advertise 8BITMIME. Which is why I wrote that email still nominally isn't 8-bit clean :-) Yes, in practice, you won't find an MTA that doesn't leave your 8 bit data unharmed, but you do find MTAs that don't advertise 8BITMIME, and so nominally noone should send them 8 bit data ... except everyone does anyway, of course ...