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From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Features ask for git-send-email
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 17:35:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e37u5r$4pi$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1146579255.17934.8.camel@pmac.infradead.org

David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 14:53 +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>> Doesn't
>>         Content-Type: text/plain; charset=$charset
>> header need also
>>         MIME-Version: 1.0
> 
> Maybe. The use of Content-Type: actually predates RFC2045, and if we
> include a MIME-Version header then we should make 100% sure that we also
> conform to the rest of RFC2045, which I hadn't actually looked at. In
> particular, we should take care of Content-Transfer-Encoding.
> 
> I'd prefer to leave MIME-Version out for now, I think.

If I remember correctly _some_ mail applications or news (Usenet) agents 
did not respect Content-Type without MIME-Version, I think according to 
standard. Perhaps that have changed.

As to the other MIME header:
        Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-02 15:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-29 13:30 Features ask for git-send-email Bertrand Jacquin
2006-05-02 12:36 ` David Woodhouse
2006-05-02 12:53   ` Jakub Narebski
2006-05-02 14:14     ` David Woodhouse
2006-05-02 15:35       ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2006-05-02 22:46   ` Bertrand Jacquin
2006-05-02 23:33     ` David Woodhouse
2006-05-02 23:51       ` Bertrand Jacquin

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