On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 22:58:11 EDT, Bryan Fields said:
The issue with outlook/exchange is there is no way to use another client with it. I cannot even force plain text to the internet, the server send it as quoted printable even if I strip all formatting.
If the entire body part is expressible in US-ASCII, then the case can be made that using quoted-printable *anyhow* is a bug because it's using an un-necessary encoding..
The outlook email client does not support wrapping text at a given line length either.
Except for RFC2045, section 6.7, which addresses this: A body which is entirely US-ASCII may also be encoded in Quoted-Printable to ensure the integrity of the data should the message pass through a character-translating, and/or line-wrapping gateway. In other words, "since we can't wrap at anyplace sane, we're worried that a line pretending to be a paragraph will hit the 998-octet SMTP linelength limit."