Phil Pennock wrote:
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Phil, we are on the same song-sheet on this one!
Sitting (mostly) in Asia, 8-bit, especially UTF-8, is dear to us, and
has not been a problem AT ALL with defaults. Nor with Qmail before Exim.
nor Courier-MTA. So it has been over a dozen years and 8BITMIME has not
bitten OURazz.
But after turning ON 8BITMIME, experimenting with DJB's site and a few
others, I came to the conclusion that punycode et al aren't just
'...baroque..'.
They just have to be the byproduct of a collective misuse of banned
substances, as the 'cure' is worse than the disease!
FAR worse..
That, or at some point in the next year I'll drink enough whiskey to
decide to tell some people where they can stick their idiot 7-bit
systems
Fact is, hardware AND software-wise, most have already made the trip.
And long since. Any remaining damn well SHOULD be pushed off their perch.
and just commit a change defaulting accept_8bitmime to on, then
after the next release of Exim take a month-long holiday from the
Internet to avoid the flame-wars until they settle down and everyone
realises that in fact, DJB is right, Phil Hazel was right to refuse to
implement protocol conversion and people are making a big fuss about a
non-issue.
Why wait?
Give me a physical ship-to off-list, and I'll furnish the first bottle
or two to hasten the process.
Hope you don't mind single-malts. I am woefully ignorant about blends,
and wouldn't want to *harm* anyone...
;-)
Best,
Bill
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