Re: The compatibility_level mechanism

2018-03-12 Thread Jesper Dybdal
On 2018-03-12 12:12, Wietse Venema wrote: Whereas compatibility is easy to check for features that are implemented in one place, smtputf8 affects a lot of programs. One would have to enable it under the covers, but not enforce it. Thanks for the explanation.  I'll be more careful the next time

Re: The compatibility_level mechanism

2018-03-12 Thread Wietse Venema
Jesper Dybdal: > What I do not understand, postfix-wise, is that I have seen no warnings > about "using backwards-compatible" default value of smtputf8_enable > during the period where I was using compatibility_level=0.? With compatibility_level=0, Postfix always accepts mail with a non-ascii

The compatibility_level mechanism

2018-03-11 Thread Jesper Dybdal
The compatibility_level mechanism is an excellent and very well designed idea.  But I must have misunderstood something - or there is an error. Around christmas I upgraded from postfix 2.11 to 3.1.6 (Debian 9). I let the system run with compatibility_level=0 for a couple of months. I