...We have one client that has a problem sending mail to another mail server, which is apparently an Exchange server, and the other mail server admin maintains this is our problem. Which it certainly may be. The error message that is created when the client sends his message is -
"501 MessageWall: SMTP/FATAL: Server sent an 8bit character to a 7bit server"
I believe this is actually a client issue. Normal SMTP doesn't allow 8-bit characters in E-mail. Attachments often do -- and so they are MIME encoded.
What is probably happening here is that the client is sending 8-bit characters (such as accented characters), but has their mail client set not to encode them. IMail doesn't care about the content of the E-mail, so it sends the E-mail -- but the remote mailserver rejects it.
-Scott
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