MBOX-Line: From janssen at parc.com  Tue Feb  5 14:18:09 2008
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.com>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:41 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] non-ASCII byte sequences in IMAP? 
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	091040pst. 58696"@synergy1.parc.xerox.com>
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> 8-bit occurs elsewhere too. LOGIN is just an example. Another reasonable 
> example is FETCH BODYSTRUCTURE: If the sender of a message includes 
> 8-bit characters where none are permitted, a compliant and well-behaved 
> IMAP server asked to serve that message is often up the creek.

Assuming that such a message could somehow get into the server in the
first place :-).

Bill

