On 01/05/12 15:10, Chris Knadle wrote: > I think the reason Exim does not do this protocol conversion is that from the > point of view of an MTA author, the point of an MTA is to transmit the body > of > the message without any modification to it once received, and body > modification would be required to convert 8-bit MIME to 7-bit MIME. I seem > to > remember reading something along these lines in the Exim documentation years > ago and I'm having another look through it, but haven't found a reference to > this yet.
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch14.html#SECTalomo says: "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." I have enabled accept_8bitmime in every exim I've installed for the last 10 years and no one has reported any problems. I think the risk of encountering a truly 7 bit MTA in this decade is low enough to be ignored for most purposes. Anyone still using one is likely to find that a substantial fraction of their incoming mail is corrupted. Roger -- 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/4fa02fac.7060...@rilynn.me.uk
