Re: switching from exim to postfix
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 <vincent@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 <jmtd@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
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