On 2012-05-02 20:23:41 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> wrote: > >On 2012-05-02 15:00:36 +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> On Wed, 2 May 2012 10:06:31 +0100 > >> Jon Dowland <j...@debian.org> wrote: > >> > >> > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 08:44:12AM +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote: > >> > > No it doesn't if 8BITMIME annouces are turned off! > >> > >> > If exim receives an 8 bit mail, even if it hadn't announced > >8BITMIME > >> > in the EHLO response, it will relay that message verbatim to other > >> > hosts. > >> > >> But it won't receive it at all if the sender is standards-compliant. > > > >True for SMTP. But what if exim received an 8-bit mail by another > >mean (e.g. on the command line via the sendmail command)? > > Then it's irrelevant to the discussion. It's a local system issue > and it's up to the local administrator. Internet standards have > nothing to do with it.
Wrong. It's relevant in the sense that Exim will transmit the mail to a remote MTA. If it doesn't do the 8-bit to 7-bit conversion if the remote MTA doesn't announce 8BITMIME, then Exim is broken. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- 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/20120503004506.ga25...@xvii.vinc17.org
