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List:       gnupg-users
Subject:    RE: MUA questions
From:       "Ryan Malayter" <rmalayter () bai ! org>
Date:       2004-02-05 23:17:53
Message-ID: 792DE28E91F6EA42B4663AE761C41C2A01A75DB8 () cliff ! bai ! org
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[Atom 'Smasher']
> i thought that email is only supposed to be 7-bit

Extended SMTP (ESMTP) has supported the "8BIT" command for many many
years. This allows the transsport of unencoded binary data across mail
streams. See RFC-3030 for the latest on this.

Similarly, the RFC-2045, which is the latest that descibes MIME types,
defines several different Content-Transfer-Encodings for mail messages.
Two of these are "8bit" and "Binary", which mean basically mean "raw
data".


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