On 17/01/2019 03:31, Gene Hightower wrote:
Microsoft, for their hotmail.com service anyway, does support
BINARYMIME for received mail. And, as far as I can tell, it works.
Strangely, when Microsoft sends mail they don't seem to use BINARYMIME
even though I offer the extension.
To be honest, I'd think BINARYMIME would be easy to implement on a final
delivery SMTP server (as you KNOW what's downstream from you, and that
they won't need to recode the message).
However, on the outgoing part of a submission server (or on an
intermediate MTA), it's a lot more tricky, as you don't know what you
may be sending to and whether it'll need recoding.
So, that's quite possibly why Microsoft accept it on incoming, but don't
use it on outgoing. Seems sensible to me.
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