Re: [EXIM] 1) strange reject, take #2 2) failed DNS lookup…

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Dr Andrew C Aitchison
CC: Peter Gervai, exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] 1) strange reject, take #2 2) failed DNS lookup problem
On Fri, 8 May 1998, Dr Andrew C Aitchison wrote:

> Phil, you didn't quote these 2 lines; did you see them ?
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
> How does a top-bit character come out in 7-bit encoding -
> from the log it looks to me as if the translation includes "<" ?


I didn't notice those lines, but I did test with <E9> and got a
different error message to the one quoted. But perhaps it's all to do
with that. I don't know why 7-bit persists in this day and age. TCP/IP
has always been an 8-bit transport mechanism.

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