Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Matthew Brown writes:
>
>> The difference is that sendmail makes a halfhearted attempt at compliance,
>> and qmail doesn't.
>
>Agreed. Now, which one would you rather have?
I'd rather have qmail, of course. How silly. Half-assed attempts at
compliance are no better than non-attempts, and are frequently worse.
>> > The correct way to handle that is to reject them in the first place.
>>
>> Are you seriously suggesting that, for the sake of these saintly, antiquated
>> 7 bit only mailservers, we should drop people's emails on the floor?
>
>No, and that's the whole point. If you forward it along without encoding
>it as quoted-printable, it *WILL* be dropped on the floor.
An MTA will pass unencoded 8-bit messages as-is, encode them before
passing them on, or reject them. No reasonable MTA will drop them on
the floor.
>> Also, let me put it this way: is there any MTA out there that only accepts
>> 7bit mail that should not be upgraded for many other reasons?
>
>Yes. aol.com. As long as their 7bit mail relay handles almost a hundred
>million messages per day, I think it's pretty safe to say that it does its
>job as it should.
I don't give a pea squeaking tinker's f*ck about what AOL does or
doesn't do. 800 lb gorilla or not, they just aren't that important to
me, and I hope people don't start kowtowing to them.
-Dave
