On Wed, Apr 01, 2020 at 03:35:01PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote: > >> We would either need to switch Andrew to a set of tools that handle > >> 7bit legacy formats better, or figure out how you can send things > >> via MTAs that won't convert from 8bit to quoted-printable. Maybe > >> you can convince Red Hat to set up their relays to always preserve > >> 8bit? > > > > I'll give it a try, but I think it's rather unlikely ... :) > > So, people are looking into. Literally any mail that goes via Mimecast > servers (at least sent by me!) is converted *for whatever reason* to > quoted-printable. I mean, it's not *wrong* to do that -- older mail standards required that all MTA-to-MTA communication should be done in 7bit. But we're literally talking previous-century legacy protocols here. Forcefully converting all mail to 7bit is about the most 90s thing you can do these days, short of being really into mullets and Arsenio Hall. > E.g., patches I punched out today via "git send-email" even have the > line continuations thingy again (they disappeared for a while, maybe > there are different MTAs involved and it's like playing the lottery) Those show up when your lines are longer than 76 characters. Because, you know, otherwise the message would be too wide to fit through the ethernet cable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable#Quoted-Printable_encoding Best regards, -K
