On 29 Oct 2008, at 15:06, paul spandler wrote: > 2008/10/29 W B Hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Exim is doing precisely what an(y) MTA is supposed to do - NOT >> whimsically altering the headers, message or attachment content, or >> encoding of valid smtp message traffic. > > This is exactly the sort of response I had hoped to receive. The > vendor's suggestion seemed contrary to my understanding of what any > MTA would do (irrespective of the flavour.)
I suspect that although exim is not modifying your message, it is causing the original sender to modify the message. And this probably down to 8bit mime. I suspect you are, like most people, using exim without the accept_8bitmime option being set http://docs.exim.org/current/spec_html/ch14.html The sending host is seeing no 8bit mime being offered, and so is mangling the message to make it 7 bit clean. I presume if the host sends directly to your other box, that is offering 8bit mime and so the mangling is avoided. It may be possible for you to set accept_8bitmime (exim is 8 bit clean), but if you are sending to other sites that cannot accept 8bit mime, then exim won't convert those messages, which may result in problems. Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ] -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
