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Re: switching from exim to postfix



Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> wrote:
> Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
> [...]
>> When you send 8 bit mail to a host that only supports 7 bit then it will be 
>> corrupted, usually without any notification of what happened - definitely 
>> silent corruption.
> [...]


> Have you really seen this happening in this century? Are there really
> MTAs active in the wild nowadays which are not 8-bit clean?

> I thought all of these were fixed when qmail was popular.

Nevermind, I think I had asked this about a year ago. The answer then
was something like: "No, today all MTAs are 8bit clean, I just chose to
configure mine to drop the 8th bit, to make me suffer / reject spam."

cu andreas


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