On Wed, 2 May 2012, Riku Voipio <riku.voi...@iki.fi> wrote: > It would be a RFC violation to just pass 8bit mails to servers not > advertizing 8bitmime. It would be rfc compatible to the sending server > to bounce instead of qp-converting 8bit mails, but that would arguably > be even worse.
No, bouncing mail when it can't be properly delivered is much better than violating RFCs. Mail that is bounced with a human readable message describing the real cause of the problem can then be re-sent once the problem is fixed. Having mail be silently corrupted is not acceptable. I've spent a lot of time debugging email problems over the years... -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201205021905.14630.russ...@coker.com.au
