On Thursday, May 03, 2012 02:45:06 AM Vincent Lefevre wrote: > 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.
True, but that's a different bit of brokenness. Scott K -- 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/1402413.fhnghq13dI@scott-latitude-e6320
