On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Philip Hazel wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Hugh Sasse wrote:
>
> > if_needed: The message contains binary, or non-ASCII chars, and the
[...]
>
> I do not like the idea of Exim doing any scanning of message bodies. It
> doesn't do so at the moment.
Good point.
>
> > I have a feeling this "fuzzy" compromise is too simple,
>
> Creeping Featurism Alert!
Exactly!
>
> > I hope it is of some help. I mean, I can see people will be asking for
> > things like :
> >
> > hosts_accept_mime_errors = <hostlist>
>
> Aarrgghh!!
:-) Yes, that was partly my point, that to do it right[?]
could make it rather more complex than one might wish,
be that author or admin. But I was hoping I might spark
off an idea of beautiful simplicity in someone.
>
> Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> Actually the people fussing about this are the people receiving the
> bounces.
Well, some were concerned about users trying/not trying to read
these things as well, but
> [...] we cannot
> cater for all the whims of the rest of the world.
agreed.
Hugh
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