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- RFC 1428:
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- Title: Transition of Internet Mail from Just-Send-8
- to 8bit-SMTP/MIME
- Author: G. Vaudreuil
- Mailbox: GVaudre@CNRI.Reston.VA.US
- Pages: 6
- Characters: 12,064
- Updates/Obsoletes: none
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- Protocols for extending SMTP to pass 8bit characters have been defined
- in RFC 1425 and RFC 1426. These protocols require that messages
- transported by the extended SMTP are to be encoded in MIME (RFCs 1341,
- 1342). Before work began on these protocols, several SMTP
- implementations adopted ad-hoc mechanisms for sending 8bit data. It is
- desirable for the extended SMTP environment and these ad hoc
- mechanisms interoperate. This document outlines the problems in this
- environment and an approach to minimizing the cost of transition from
- current usage of non-MIME 8bit messages to MIME.
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- Joyce K. Reynolds
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