On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 09:39:54AM -0500, Aaron Schrab wrote: > Mutt is behaving fine. My guess is that you have sendmail's > EightBitMode option set to "pass", which tells it to just pass > unlabeled 8bit data through, even though this violates the > standards. > > But when mutt sends 8bit data, it labels it as such with a header > like: > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > So sendmail will always encode it into 7bit if the receiving smtp > server doesn't announce that it will accept 8bit messages. There > may be a way to configure sendmail to blindly send 8bit data, but > I'm not going to do research on how to violate the standards for > you.
Indeed, now that someone's explained it I wouldn't want to do that neither. Thanks for the explanation. Incidentally, how do you set Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit? All my mails are either QP or base64. Thanks again, -- Jonathan Perkin - BBC Internet Services - http://support.bbc.co.uk/ Please check email headers for any relevant contact details
