On 30/03/2021 02:12, Gene Hightower wrote:
I think the practical answer is that most email is transferred over
TCP these days which is a stream of 8-bit bytes. You sort of get
8-bits for free without doing anything special. You have to work at
*not* supporting 8BITMIME. So the bar for this feature was very low.
So, what do you do if you have an 8-bit message and try to send it to a
server which doesn't support 8BITMIME?
This is the main thing that has stopped us implementing it.
It seems there are three options:
- fail to deliver the message (not going to be popular with users)
- deliver it anyway, and stuff the standards (will *probably* work, but
if it doesn't, we have no excuse for our customers)
- transcode it to 7-bit (complex and breaks DKIM/DMARC and any other
signatures)
Each of these options 'raises the bar' considerably if you provide
support to users.
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