[xfbb] 7plus and POP3 (2)

[Cees Tool]

Hi Jean-Paul,

It has been mentioned by Arno, PE1ICQ in september, but POP3 received mail
cannot contrain 7plus parts. According the error message of 7plus "bit-8"
has been stripped.

Maybe you could think about a way to keep bit-8 for data-type packet
messages (FBB datatype "D") ?

See Arno's message below.

Regards,
Cees - PA3AES


----- Original Message -----
From: "Arno Verhoeven" <xfbb-list-rcvr@sharon.esrac.ele.tue.nl>
To: <xfbb@f6fbb.org>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 6:03 PM
Subject: [xfbb] 7plus and POP3


> Hi,
>
> With the current POP3 implementation it is not possible to use 7plus.
> When a message containing 7plus encoded information is retrieved with
> POP3, it is not possible to decode the 7plus part.
>
> Is it somehow possible to change the POP3 implementation to make it 8-bit
> clean?
> I'm not familiar with all the RFC documents, but I guess something could
> be done using MIME.
> 7plus content could be transfered as something like...
>
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
> name="filename.7pl"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> Content-Disposition: attachment;
> filename="filename.7pl"
>
>
> A very "luxurious" solution would be to convert 7plus content to a base64
> encode attachment.
>
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
> name="filename.zip"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Disposition: attachment;
> filename="filename.zip"
>
> (in this example I assumed zip is the extension of the 7plus encoded file)
>
>
> Jean-Paul, Is this something you would consider for a next version?
>
> --
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