On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, dman wrote:
> Suppose this is the scenario :
>
> 1) a user agent creates a message with the high-order bit set on some
> characters
>
> 2) the user agent pipes the mesasge to exim like that
>
> 3) when exim tries to hand off the message via SMTP, the remote host
> doesn't advertise 8BITMIME
>
> WIll exim bounce the message as rfc1652 seems to require, or is that
> considered a bug in the user agent that created the message?
As documented, Exim is 8-bit clean. It will "just send 8". It doesn't
even look at what the receiving host advertises.
The justification for this is given in my book. (Executive summary: this
action is more likely to "do what the user wanted" than anything else.)
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