Version: 1.5 (using KDE 3.1.0) Installed from: (3.0) Compiler: gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease) OS: Linux (i686) release 2.4.18-686 Kmail sends quoted-printable mails even if MIME quoted-printable is not selected. In "sending messages", I selected "Use 8 bits characters" and the mail is still sent in quoted-printable which renders it unreadable in mailing lists archives. Thanks, Yann Forget KMail 1.5 (with KDE 3.1) Debian Testing with Woody packages from http://ktown.kde.org/~nolden/kde
Subject: Re: New: Kmail send quoted-printable even if MIME QP is not selected Are you sending signed messages?
Subject: Re: Kmail send quoted-printable even if MIME QP is not selected Le Jeudi 20 F
Subject: Re: Kmail send quoted-printable even if MIME QP is not selected Signed messages are always encoded with the quoted-printable encoding (since KDE 3.1) because this is the only way we can guarantee that no buggy mail server strips off the 8bit characters and thus breaks the signature. BTW, we also quoted-printable encode messages if they contain a line that starts with "From ". This is also done in order to prevent the message from being mangled by buggy MTAs.
Subject: Re: Kmail send quoted-printable even if MIME QP is not selected Hi, OK, I understand, is this really necessary? I think buggy MTA should be fixed rather than KMail behaviour changed. Is this in the documentation? I think it should be. I didn't find anything about this in KMail documentation. Thanks, Yann Le Jeudi 20 F
Subject: Re: Kmail send quoted-printable even if MIME QP is not selected On Sunday 23 February 2003 10:58, yann@forget-me.net wrote: > OK, I understand, is this really necessary? I think buggy MTA should > be fixed rather than KMail behaviour changed. KMail can't fix buggy MTAs. Therefore it makes sure that buggy MTAs can't cause too much trouble for recipients of signed messages. On a sidenote, IMO mailing list archive software should support quoted-printable encoding. > Is this in the documentation? I think it should be. > I didn't find anything about this in KMail documentation. No, it's not documented. I will make sure that an appropriate remark is added. BTW, for PGP/MIME messages using quoted-printable (or base64) encoding is a requirement (RFC 3056).