How do I change Content-Transfer-Encoding from 8-bit to 7-bit?

[Rhino]

I'm using Tbird 78.5.0 (32-bit) on Windows 10. When I use the Tbird
newsreader, at least one guy on my newsgroup finds it problematic to
read my posts because the lines aren't breaking properly and it was
suggested to me that if I could change my Content-Transfer-Encoding to
7-bit from the current 8-bit, the problem might go away.

I've looked at the options in Tbird but I don't see any option that will
do that. Can anyone tell me what I need to change and where to find that
setting?

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Rhino

[WaltS48]

Looking at the source code of this message you posted you are already
using it.

MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
Content-Language: en-US
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

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[Rhino]

On 2020-11-24 8:09 AM, WaltS48 wrote:
> On 11/23/20 10:27 PM, Rhino wrote:
>> I'm using Tbird 78.5.0 (32-bit) on Windows 10. When I use the Tbird
>> newsreader, at least one guy on my newsgroup finds it problematic to
>> read my posts because the lines aren't breaking properly and it was
>> suggested to me that if I could change my Content-Transfer-Encoding to
>> 7-bit from the current 8-bit, the problem might go away.
>>
>> I've looked at the options in Tbird but I don't see any option that
>> will do that. Can anyone tell me what I need to change and where to
>> find that setting?
>>
>
> Looking at the source code of this message you posted you are already
> using it.
>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
> Content-Language: en-US
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>

I tried reading up about Content-Transfer-Encoding and got the
impression from articles - sometimes very old articles - that the
encoding can change automatically depending on where you are. For
instance, it can be different for email attachments than email itself.
Therefore, might it be different in one servers newsgroups than anothers?


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Rhino

[WaltS48]

I have no idea.

Are they using Thunderbird?

Ask the guy with the problem to check the section I provided in the
source of the message and see what it is.

Also ask the person that suggested the change how to do it.

[Dave Royal]

Rhino <no_offlin...@example.com> wrote:
> I tried reading up about Content-Transfer-Encoding and got the
> impression from articles - sometimes very old articles - that the
> encoding can change automatically depending on where you are. For
> instance, it can be different for email attachments than email itself.
> Therefore, might it be different in one servers newsgroups than anothers?
>

I think that a relay (for nntp) or an MTA (for smtp) can change from
8bit to 7bit - maybe the other way too - as they pass the message along.

Why do they think this will make a difference to line lengths? Seems
unlikely. More likely its their treatment of your format-flowed. What UA
are they using?

Are the offending lines ones that have been quoted one or more times?
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[Rhino]

On 2020-11-24 10:20 AM, Dave Royal wrote:
> Rhino <no_offlin...@example.com> wrote:
>> I tried reading up about Content-Transfer-Encoding and got the
>> impression from articles - sometimes very old articles - that the
>> encoding can change automatically depending on where you are. For
>> instance, it can be different for email attachments than email itself.
>> Therefore, might it be different in one servers newsgroups than anothers?
>>
> I think that a relay (for nntp) or an MTA (for smtp) can change from
> 8bit to 7bit - maybe the other way too - as they pass the message along.
>
> Why do they think this will make a difference to line lengths? Seems
> unlikely.

Because another Tbird user whose posts don't give the same problem
compared her headers and mine and said the only difference was that my
Content-Transfer-Encoding was 8-bit and hers is 7-bit.

> More likely its their treatment of your format-flowed. What UA
> are they using?
>

What's a UA?

> Are the offending lines ones that have been quoted one or more times?
>

Yes.

It turns out this whole question is moot. As I replied to Walt:

I found out that the one thing I tried to solve the problem, changing my
fonts from Variable Width to Fixed Width, seems to have solved the problem!

Darned if I know why that worked but that's great; I really didn't want
to lose a lot of time to struggling with this problem.

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Rhino

[Rhino]

> Ask the guy with the problem to check the section I provided in the I w

> source of the message and see what it is.
>
> Also ask the person that suggested the change how to do it.
>

I was going to dig up that information but found out that the one thing

[WaltS48]

You do know you that by accepted convention you are not supposed to post
to newsgroups using HTML composition?