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Re: switching from exim to postfix



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)?

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