Re: Latest DRAFT of SMTP bindings

[Rich Salz <rsalz@zolera.com>]

> The User-agent puts the MIME headers into the
> message, for example, including the ones on CTEs. If the MTA
> were to apply encodings, it would break multipart/signed
> objects, for example, where the signature is over the headers
> and the body part of the first bodypart in the multipart/signed.

Yes, the multipart/signed (rfc 1847) and s/mime 2 (rfc 2311), the MTA is
in fact not allowed to apply encodings.  It is up to the MUA, as a
matter of "safety" to encode before handing the message to the MTA.  If
an MTA can't handle 8bit it's supposed to reject the message.

	/r$