[Zope-dev] [Framework-Team] Re: MailHost Improvements

[Jens Vagelpohl]

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On Aug 15, 2009, at 19:03 , Alec Mitchell wrote:

> There's one additional significant change to Zope behavior here that  
> I forgot to mention.  The current implementation sets the python  
> default email transfer and header encoding for 'utf-8' messages to  
> 'quoted-printable', it normally defaults to 'base64'.  This is  
> essentially a cosmetic change and makes reading and debugging email  
> messages much more straightforward.  It also makes encoded mail less  
> likely to be caught by SPAM filters (some of which dislike base64  
> mail on principle).
>
> At present this change causes one test in CMFDefault to fail, which  
> I'm happy to fix.  But it's also not a problem to just remove the  
> line that sets the new 'utf-8' encoding, though I think it dpes have  
> some important advantages.

I'm not an expert, but if quoted-printable is "better practice" then  
it should be used and the CMF test should be changed accordingly.

jens



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