On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 09:30:23PM +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2012 20:18:07 +0200 > Philipp Kern <pk...@debian.org> wrote: > > > So just stop Postfix doing the conversion? Or teach Exim to announce > > 8BITMIME by default. > > No, Exim should not announce 8BITMIME, or it will violate RFC, not > otherwise. Now it doesn't announce it, but accepts, so RFC-compliant > MUA or other MTA should do the conversion themselves and everything > just works. If it announces the support, it effectively lies as it > doesn't support conversion which is needed if it wants to send mail to > non-compliant MTA.
If I use sendmail it will happily accept 8bit, because there's no way to tell if the MTA is 8BITMIME-compliant. And POSIX doesn't mandate 7bit, does it? > I wonder why many people in this thread still don't understand this. > And also I can't see why some find this annoying behaviour or something > wrong. There's absolutely nothing wrong with what it does now, as > re-encoding will happen somewhere anyway as there are still many really > non-8-bit-compliant MTAs, so why should Exim do this? Exim transmits 8bit mails to non-8bit-compliant MTAs, so what exactly are you arguing? Kind regards Philipp Kern
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