Re: pine and whitespace

>>> Ted Unangst <tedu@zeitbombe.org> 11-Aug-03 01:34 >>>
>
> pine cleans whitespace at end of line, which violates the principle of

If trailing whitespace is important in an email, I prefer to send as quoted-printable (or even base64). Never mind the MUA; trailing white space _cannot_ be depended on in email.

>From RFC2045:

   6.7. Quoted-Printable Content-Transfer-Encoding

         :
         (3)   (White Space) ...
               :
               This rule is necessary because some MTAs (Message
               Transport Agents, programs which transport messages
               from one user to another, or perform a portion of such
               transfers) are known to pad lines of text with SPACEs,
               and others are known to remove "white space" characters
               from the end of a line.

However, as a Pine user, I would be happy if OpenBSD had a local patch to _not_ remove trailing white space. However, as Jakob says, the best solution would be for the University of Washington to make this configurable behaviour.

Thanks

Tom Received on Mon Aug 11 12:50:26 2003