On 5/24/11 12:47 , "Hector Santos" <[email protected]> wrote:

>Steve Atkins wrote:
>
>>> Exim doesn't downgrade. It doesn't advertise 8bitmime either, by
>>>default. 
>>> If you switch on 8bitmime advertising, it still doesn't downgrade. I
>>> think it just tries to deliver the mail as 8bit, regardless of what
>>>the 
>>> receiving MTA does. I think postfix and sendmail do the same, but I'm
>not sure.
>> 
>> Exchange advertises 8bit and then bounces the mail if it tries to
>>forward it 
>> to a server that doesn't advertise 8bit.
>> 
>> This (entirely RFC valid yet completely broken) behaviour has bitten me
>> a couple of times.
>
>+1
>
>If everyone (mail transport/mail handlers) just followed the basic
>mail networking principle of:
>
>     Thou should not touch passthru mail (except for network traces)

Are there the same issues with PGP or S/Mime email?


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