282626 - option for 8bit headers in new news (mail)

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, enhancement)

Description

[Alexander Ogol]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: 

According to RFC, MUA must convert all headers to base64 or quoted-printable,
not allowing 8 bit characters. But it is very useful to have option not to do
this for specific accounts.
In xUSSR, FIDO messaging system (alternative to news) is popular. Gateways are
available, that provide transferring of messages between InternetNews<=>FIDO
stations.
FIDO readers can't read MIME; headers from all TB posters become unreadable from
FIDO side.
While it is preferably task of gateways to convert between 8 bit and QP,
actually there's no gateways, that does it.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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