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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: encoding of message-ids
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 09:34:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877fi3v4t6.fsf@zancas.localnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ziv0iimt.fsf@alice.fifthhorseman.net>

Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> writes:


> That said, RFC 2047 suggest that its encodings are only relevant in
> places where a "text" token would be used.  Message-ID (and References
> and In-Reply-To) are intended to only contain dot-atom-text tokens.  So
> probably it would be more correct to avoid applying to these specific
> fields.
>
> i dunno that it's a big deal though, given the analysis above.

I guess there are two seperate issues. One is the (mildly bogus)
application of RFC2047 decoding to message-ids. The other other is the
coercion into utf8 from whatever wacky 8bit encoding some creative
person might use in a message-id.

d

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-17 13:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-16 12:38 encoding of message-ids David Bremner
2016-02-16 19:02 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2016-02-17 13:34   ` David Bremner [this message]
2016-02-24 17:15     ` W. Trevor King

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