8 - Sending an outgoing message as ASCII text - Background Information
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If you wish to send all your messages as 7-bit ASCII text, change the 'ASCIIText' setting in the 'settings.txt' file to 'yes'. This ensures that all messages are set to 'ASCII' when they are opened for editing. You can still use the 'ASCII/Quoted-Printable' menu option to change individual messages back to quoted-printable if you like.

Contrary to common practice, which is to simple delete any 8-bit content from a message before sending it as 7-bit ASCII text, RexxMail attempts to convert 8-bit characters to the nearest 7-bit equivalent if possible. So, for example, 'á' becomes 'a', and 'Ë' becomes 'E'.

In addition, long lines are word-wrapped by inserting CRLF pairs. The maximum line length can be set by means of the 'ASCIILineLength' setting in the 'settings.txt' file.


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