Re: MTAs and -B8BITMIME
jgoerzen@complete.org (John Goerzen) wrote on 15.01.98 in <[🔎] 87d8htjl48.fsf@garfield.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'd hope that sendmail first tries to deliver it via ESMTP 8BITMIME before
rewriting it, otherwise this would be the most useless feature ever.
> 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?
Personally, I'd call it a bug in Elm, for assuming every MTA supports that
flag. Exim doesn't, and neither, it seems, does Smail. So Elm should at
least be configurable.
MfG Kai
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