* Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) [120430 17:09]: > Riku Voipio <riku.voi...@iki.fi> writes:
> > Exim in 2012 not supporting 8BITMIME and thus being the last Major MTA > > forcing quoted-printable conversions to make emails "7bit clean" is > > quite horribly wrong. > > I didn't realize that. I agree, that's an annoying missing feature. Has > someone talked with upstream about whether they have plans to implement > it? Quoting the manual | accept_8bitmime Use: main Type: boolean Default: false | | This option causes Exim to send 8BITMIME in its response to an SMTP EHLO | command, and to accept the BODY= parameter on MAIL commands. However, though | Exim is 8-bit clean, it is not a protocol converter, and it takes no steps to | do anything special with messages received by this route. Consequently, this | option is turned off by default. So the *default* configuration doesn't advertise 8BITMIME for the reason that exim won't do conversions later on when relaying to other hosts (which might be a possible RFC violation, depending where the mail is relayed to). One could certainly argue that isn't the best / recommended state, but it's not that bad either. (And this is one of the first hits while searching for 8BITMIME and exim.) Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120430152149.gp2...@mails.so.argh.org
