On Fri, 30 May 2003, Dmitry Alyabyev wrote:
> Is there any changes with the way by which exim treats accept_8bitmime
> ? I mean current *absence* of transformation from 8bit (in case of
> receiving this 8bit message) to 7bit to full conform RFC 1652 ?
Exim does not transform messages. Ever. That's just the way it is. From
the spec:
accept_8bitmime Type: boolean Default: false
This option causes Exim to send 8BITMIME in its response to an SMTP EHLO
command, and to accept the BODY= parameter on MAIL commands. However,
though Exim is 8-bit clean, it is not a protocol converter, and it takes
no steps to do anything special with messages received by this route.
Consequently, this option is turned off by default.
I am pretty well in agreement with what DJB says in
http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html.
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