Sam wrote:
> What he's probably talking about is that when Qmail receives
> an 8-bit message (a foreign character set), and it gets relayed
> to a foreign server that is not capable of receiving 8BITMIME
> mail, Qmail will not downshift the message to 7-bit encoding.
> [snipped: how to set your system up to do this]
> A pain in the ass, and you shouldn't have to do this
> nonsense. This is something that should be handled
> automatically by qmail-remote.
Qmail behaves the way it does deliberately; see
http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/1998/02/msg00566.html
for Dan's word on the subject. In essence, his argument is:
1) 7-bit-only servers and clients are dying out anyway
2) Nobody else implements the standard correctly
3) 8BITMIME/quoted-printable is a gross hack and no better a solution than
getting rid of the last remaining 7bit servers
[apologies if I misstated the arguments]
For example, Sendmail doesn't correctly follow the standard (it does 8->7
conversion for MIME messages, but not for unlabelled messages containing
8-bit characters).
-Matt
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