Re: Bug#3253: Pine over-encodes files (came from Bug#932)
> > Control R is the "correct" method for including plain text in an e-mail.
That depends. Attachments are easier to handle for people with mime'd
mailers.
> Is it possible to configure smail, or some mail engine so that it returns
> such kind of messages with an appropriate explanation how it should be done.
> Or will this increase net usage enormously?
It's a bad idea. It will _really_ annoy people.
(The single most important problem with MIME is that people fight so much
about it. MIME may be big, it may be complicated, but it's a standard,
and it does make things better in the long run.)
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