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Re: Features ask for git-send-email

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
May 2, 2006, 15:35 UTC
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David Woodhouse wrote:
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> On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 14:53 +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>> Doesn't
>>         Content-Type: text/plain; charset=$charset
>> header need also
>>         MIME-Version: 1.0
> 
> Maybe. The use of Content-Type: actually predates RFC2045, and if we
> include a MIME-Version header then we should make 100% sure that we also
> conform to the rest of RFC2045, which I hadn't actually looked at. In
> particular, we should take care of Content-Transfer-Encoding.
> 
> I'd prefer to leave MIME-Version out for now, I think.

If I remember correctly _some_ mail applications or news (Usenet) agents did not respect Content-Type without MIME-Version, I think according to standard. Perhaps that have changed.

As to the other MIME header:
        Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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  3. Jakub NarebskiMay 2, 2006
  4. David WoodhouseMay 2, 2006
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  6. Bertrand JacquinMay 2, 2006
  7. David WoodhouseMay 2, 2006
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