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Re: Regarding 8bitMIME support ...

2003-05-15 05:43:11

On Thu, 15 May 2003 09:57:07 +0200
Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt(_at_)gulbrandsen(_dot_)priv(_dot_)no> wrote:

Keith Moore writes:
p.s. these days almost all SMTP servers can deal with 8bit message 
bodies (NOT headers) even if they don't advertise the 8bitmime 
extension.  so there are at least a few  implementations that just 
send 8bitmime messages without converting, and they mostly seem to 
get away with it.  it's certainly a lot simpler, and these days, it 
may even be less error-prone.  it's easy to write an 8-bit to 7-bit 
converter that corrupts messages.

Spammers just-send-8. 

last I knew, so did qmail.  so maybe the ability to filter just-send-8 is a
good thing :)

Keith

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