On Thu, 3 May 2001 10:06:54 +0100 (BST), you wrote:
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Jacob Palme wrote:
I have an impression that it has become de-facto standard in
e-mail today, that you send 8BIT characters without negotiating
an 8BIT connection according to RFC 1652?
Is this right?
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Keith Moore wrote:
my impression is that the de facto standard is to advertise 8bit
capability.
My impression is that *both* are the de-facto standard. The first
applies to clients; the second applies to servers.
I haven't seen any evidence in any RFC or STD saying that blindly (i.e. no
negotiation) sending raw 8bit data to an MTA is any sort of standard.
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