On Mon, 01 Apr 2002 08:59:19 PST, Einar Stefferud said: > It is indeed unfortunate the the DRUMS WG did not find a way to solve > the 8-bit SMTP problem, but now is the time to get to it. There > should not be too much 7-bit SMTP code to fix by now.
One hidden gotcha is that although most MTA's are probably either 8-bit-clean
or fairly easily rendered so, there is *NOT* a widespread deployment of the
RFC3030 ESMTP extensions. As a result, you still get bit by the "need a
CRLF pair every 998 characters" problem.
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Valdis Kletnieks
Computer Systems Senior Engineer
Virginia Tech
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