[TFN-help] Re: PROBLEM REPORT

[Claude Latrmouille]

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Claude Latremouille wrote:

> Thanks Chris, but I already was using ISO-8859-1 in the
> character set in my PINE configuration.
>
> It would seem that you would need to enable another
> feature of PINE to allow the proper coding-encoding
> of 8 bit characters in the new version of PINE.
>
> When looking at the help menu of a particular option I was
> already using prior to the change, I came upon something
> which you might have to enable so as to allow the system
> to code-decode these characters properly.
>
> The option I was using is called "enable-8bit-esmtp-
> negotiation" and the option mentioned is "Extended SMTP
> (ESMTP) with an extension called "8BITMIME".
>
> As I do not know what these mean, all I can say is that,
> before the change, my configuration worked and now, it does
> not.
>
> E-mail seems to decode properly, but News does not anymore.

And here is the HELP menu for the option I was talking about:

  PINE 4.44   HELP FOR SETUP CONFIGURATION                         No Messages
                      FEATURE: enable-8bit-to-smtp-server

This feature affects Pine's behavior when sending mail. Internet
standards require that all electronic mail messages traversing the global
Internet consist of 7bit ASCII characters unless a pair of cooperating
mail transfer agents explicitly agree to allow 8bit messages. In general,
then, exchanging messages in non-ASCII characters requires MIME encoding.
However, there are now Internet standards that allow for unencoded 8bit
exchange of messages between cooperating systems. Setting this feature
tells Pine to try to negotiate unencoded 8bit transmission during the
sending process. Should the negotiation fail, Pine will fall back to its
ordinary encoding rules.

Note, this feature relies on your system's mail transport agent or
configured "smtp-server" having the negotiation mechanism introduced in
"Extended SMTP" (ESMTP) and the specific extension called "8BITMIME".
ESMTP allows for graceful migration to upgraded mail transfer agents, but
it is possible that this feature might cause problems for some servers.

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