Philip Hazel wrote:
> > But more than 50% of the servers I deliver mail to offer 8BITMIME, and
> > probably in 2-3 years it will be 90%, and Exim might be one of those
> > 10% "dinosaurs of a former age", which claim to need 7-bit-Mails.
> Exim is, and always has been, 8-bit clean. I believe the continued
> insistence on 7-bit standards is really silly. TCP/IP has always been an
> 8-bit transport. (Here I am in complete agreement with Dan Bernstein.)
> "Just-send-8" has more success than munging the message in any way. If
> you set "accept_8bitmime" Exim will "offer" 8BITMIME in the ESMTP
> greeting, but it won't do anything other than just send the message it
> gets.
Demon in Holland, and perhaps other ISPs here, strips the 8th bit from
all mail packets that it receives. I get a fairly heavy mail load (and
send) to Nordic countries: Primarily Norway and Iceland. None of the
Nordic countries has a ban on 8-bit mail, consequently to use the
extended characters in the iso-8859-1 character set, most of the Pine
and Elm users, and main ISPs such as SOL in Norway, use 8-bit mail - and
refuse to use 7-bit mail (I tried). When I was a Demon customer on
dial-up PPP, and was consequently dependent on Demon's mail forwarding,
I had to get used to reading Norwegian and Icelandic without the
national characters - which made especially Icelandic almost illegible.
Don't know what the French and Germans do, but I'm of the opinion that
8-bit mail should be the standard in the whole of Europe.
Tony
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