Re: [Exim] 8bitmime?

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Συντάκτης: Friso Kuipers
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Αντικείμενο: Re: [Exim] 8bitmime?
On 19 Mar, Phil Pennock wrote:

> On 2002-03-19 at 12:06 +0000, D.M.Chapman wrote:
>> It seems from the docs that setting accept_8bitmime will allow this
>> remote system to happily deliver the email to our user but is this
>> likely to cause us problems in the future by delivering 8bit stuff
>> onwards to a non 8 bit MTA? Are these still outthere? Should I care?
>
> Yes. MMDF. Thus Plc (Demon Internet) -- you'll hit problems whenever
> you deliver to one of the UK's largest ISPs. Perhaps not so good for
> a UK academic institution. Same goes for Demon NL [*].
>


Demon UK does do 8BITMIME, if this is enough to go on:
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root@Achtung:/> host demon.co.uk
demon.co.uk mail is handled (pri=20) by internal.mail.demon.net
demon.co.uk mail is handled (pri=50) by relay-1.mail.demon.net
demon.co.uk mail is handled (pri=50) by relay-2.mail.demon.net
root@Achtung:/> telnet internal.mail.demon.net 25
Trying 193.195.224.3...
Connected to internal.mail.demon.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 internal.mail.demon.net ESMTP ; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 19:29:48 GMT
ehlo achtung.mine.nu
250-internal.mail.demon.net Hello root@??? [212.64.37.154], pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-ONEX
250-ETRN
250-XUSR
quit
221 2.0.0 internal.mail.demon.net closing connection
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Example Demon NL. It's an Exim! Should work then.
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220 hermes.mail.nl.demon.net ESMTP Exim 3.35 #2 Tue, 19 Mar 2002 20:24:53 +0100
ehlo achtung.mine.nu
250-hermes.mail.nl.demon.net Hello 10dyn154.utr.casema.net [212.64.37.154]
250-SIZE 2097152
250-PIPELINING
250 HELP
help
214-Commands supported:
214-    HELO EHLO MAIL RCPT DATA AUTH
214     NOOP QUIT RSET HELP
quit
221 hermes.mail.nl.demon.net closing connection
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Regards,
Friso Kuipers.