MBOX-Line: From janssen at parc.com  Sun Feb  3 14:00:55 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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> I think it can also appear in the message literal in the APPEND command.

Sorry, I (clearly :-) need to be more precise.  The CHARSET keyword
doesn't occur in APPEND; rather, the Content-Type headers of a message
literal may specify characters sets other than ASCII, and message
parts marked with those content-types may be sent as non-ASCII byte
streams.  Though, since the message literal is always sent as a
counted blob of bytes, perhaps it's better regarded as a blob until
someone asks the server to parse it.

Bill

