Re: [EAI] How to prevent up-conversion (Re: Respawn "Messages on original form" (Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-eai-imap-utf8-01.txt))

["Charles Lindsey" <chl at clerew.man.ac.uk>]

On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:06:37 -0000, Harald Alvestrand  
<harald at alvestrand.no> wrote:

Sorry, my original message did not go to the whole list.

> Charles Lindsey wrote:
> > Generally speaking I just regard it as a fundamental requirement of any  
> > internet protocol to be able to examine what was actually on the wire,  
> > before other agents started to "improve" it.
> If taken to mean what the words mean in their dictionary definitions,  
> what you are asking for is packet trace.
> The most reasonable tools for that are called "tcpdump" and "ethereal"  
> (provided that your "wire" is an Ethernet, of course).

Yes, I am not concerned about the inner structure of TCP packets. But what  
I DO want to see is that anyone who receives an email in his MUA (whether  
via an IMAP storage server of otherwise) can have access to the original  
RFC 2822 object as it arrived on the wire at the final MTA. The ability to  
provide that service constrains somewhat what IMAP implementations can do  
internally.

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