On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 06:55:20PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > It's both extra traffic (not that much if western encodings) and extra > cpu work. In lesser annoyance, it means that you no longer can read > mailbox files with non-mime capable readers (for example less) with ease, > as there will be qp encodings here and there. People who only use english > only hit the issue when having lines longer than 76 characters. > > Basicly that the qmail author is suggesting is violating the rfc by > announcing 8bitmime sopport but never doing any conversions if you bump > into a server that doesn't support 8bitmime. This is the same as the > exim's accept_8bitmime option. > > In the real world, violating the rfc is a non-issue, as most likely the > only non-8bitmime compliant servers your server encouters are qmail and exim4, > both which have no problems with 8bit mails itself. > > Honesstly. my grievance is really just having to convert things to 7bit.. still! So just stop Postfix doing the conversion? Or teach Exim to announce 8BITMIME by default. Kind regards Philipp Kern
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