Re: Why not "attach" patches?

Kai Henningsen (kaih@khms.westfalen.de)
24 Jan 2002 08:59:00 +0200


hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) wrote on 22.01.02 in <a2kac1$m0a$1@cesium.transmeta.com>:

> The common ground most people seems to be able to accept is:
>
> a. Go ahead and make patches as attachments, if your MUA makes it easier;
> b. Be bloody certain they're text/plain attachments.

... and that they have Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit or 8bit.

*Not* quoted-printable or base64.

Which means that you lose if the patch contains chars whose 8th bit is
set, if any MTA between you and Linus/Alan/etc. doesn't like that. Which
is not quite unlikely. (But most MUAs won't allow you to send something
like that anyway.)

MfG Kai
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