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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] rewrite of KMMsgPartDlg and fixincludes rant
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <ingo.kloecker () epost ! de>
Date:       2002-01-05 17:34:57
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On Saturday 05 January 2002 12:33, Marc Mutz wrote:
> On Friday 04 January 2002 01:26, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> Basically, 8bit and 7bit is "text" (ie. organized in lines of no more
> than 1k chars, each delimited from the other by CRLF), while "binary"
> is just that: binary.

And it must not be possible to select this encoding in KMail. As I see 
below you agree.

> > uuencode? Are you insane? Maybe we should be able to decode
> > uuencoded stuff but we should definitely never use this deprecated
> > (at least since June 1992) encoding. Please let uuencode die
> > gracefully!
>
> Did you see it in the popup? No. But OK, I will remove even the
> possibility...

Thanks!

[very verbose information about cte snipped]
> Given that this restriction still applies, this extension does NOT
> provide a means for transferring unencoded binary via SMTP.
> ---end rfc1652 excerpt---
>
> This means that I will remove the "binary" "encoding", too. Thus the
> list of encodings now becomes:
> none (7bit text)
> none (8bit text)
> base 64 (binary data)
> quoted printable (arbitrary text)
>
> OK?

Hmm, shouldn't 8bit also be removed (cf. the last sentence of the 
rfc1652 excerpt)?
And 7bit should only be available if the attachment doesn't contain 
non-7bit characters.

> > > To do:
> > > - Add config option to show or not to show the dialog on
> > > attaching.
> >
> > I think we need a new configuration category: "Superfluous config
> > options". Wouldn't it be enough if you, Marc, could enable it by
> > editing kmailrc? I doubt that anyone except you will miss this
> > annoying dialog. Anyway, do whatever you want.
>
> OK. I'll add a config option w/o GUI.

Thanks!

Regards,
Ingo
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