Re: [Haskell-cafe] Question: mime-mail and base64 encoding

On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 22:21:35 -0800, Nathan Howell wrote:

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Michael Snoyman wrote:

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The request is to make both the HTML and plain text parts use base64 encoding by default. This *seems* to me to make a lot of sense, since it will ensure that your message arrives exactly as you intended it, and will ensure that any non-ASCII code points don't get killed somewhere along the way. On the other hand, I'm not sure what client support is like for base-64 encoding. Don't we need to leave *some* form of non-encoded data for less sophisticated email clients?

The way I've seen it done before was to: - calculate the size of the body in quoted-printable and base64 encoding - select the smaller encoded form of the two

quoted-printable is fairly human readable. This strategy also works for encoding headers, particularly Subject: lines (substituting q-encoding for qp).

I would prefer quoted-printable as well, at least for the text alternative. -- Nicolas Pouillard http://nicolaspouillard.fr