Re: [Exim] what is exim's reaction (rfc1652)

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Autor: Philip Hazel
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Para: dman
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Assunto: Re: [Exim] what is exim's reaction (rfc1652)
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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