Re: the right bug severity in case of mbox formats

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>, 2012-11-28, 19:16:
> If you don't restrict yourself to avoiding MIME, any piece of text (or 
> indeed any bytestring) becomes losslessly representable. In particular, 
> MUAs supporting quoted-printable and/or Base64 can avoid sending 
> messages matching /^From / by using MIME and quoted-printable-encoding 
> them. Adam's MUA, which appears to be mutt, does so by using QP, 
> without special effort from him.

mutt indeed has an option to that (encode_from), but it's disabled by 
default.

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Jakub Wilk