MTAs and -B8BITMIME

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

Elm is currently set to pass off messages containing high-ASCII
characters to sendmail with the -B8BITMIME option, which causes
sendmail to do the right thing according to SMTP protocol (7 bit).
sendmail rewrites the message using quoted-printable MIME.

I received a bug report recently (#17103) stating that Elm doesn't
handle 8-bit characters properly.  It seems to work fine on my
system.  The MTA in question is Exim.  Is it possible that Exim
doesn't support -B8BITMIME?  (Which has been in sendmail for a LONG
time).  If so, is this a bug in Exim or Elm?  And why?

Thanks,
John

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