Re: MIME QP encoded good/bad ...

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Oct 09 2000 - 11:05:09 EDT

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> I do use PINE, and I still think QP is buggy and a stupid excersize. Mail
> delivery should have been cleaned up, not the user agent. You could have
> done the equivalent of QP inside sendmail, and none of the stupid QP
> issues would ever ever have happened (sure, people with old sendmails
> would have seen the QP-encoding, but that's THEIR problem).

Umm you can. Sendmail supports arbitary delivery agents, you just need to
write a suitable one in your 'copious' free time

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