[rt-users] [netaktiv.com #100] RT email and the ISO-8859-1 characters

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 05:57:13PM +0900,
 Ben Gertzfield <che at debian.org> wrote 
 a message of 44 lines which said:

> If you do not send your 8-bit email encoded either in Quoted-Printable
> or Base64, then you're violating RFC 2822 and will run into trouble
> with email gateways:

Almost all the SMTP servers are now 8-bits clean. Nobody still runs
sendmail 5 :-)
 
> What makes you say that "nobody does it"?

On a typical french-speaking mailing list:

aragon:~/Mail/debian % grep -i 'content-transfer-encoding: *quoted-printable' french |wc -l
    436
aragon:~/Mail/debian % grep -i 'content-transfer-encoding: *8bit' french |wc -l    1276