Re: [Exim] sendmail client & 8bitmime

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Author: Tabor J. Wells
Date:  
To: Valentin Nechayev
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] sendmail client & 8bitmime
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 08:13:03PM +0300,
Valentin Nechayev <netch@???> is thought to have said:

> $ exim -bh 193.193.193.107
> [...skipping...]
> 220 saiga.carrier.kiev.ua ESMTP Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:09:51 +0300
> [...skipping...]
> ehlo i
> >>> host in smtp_accept_max_nonmail_hosts? yes (matched "*")
> >>> host in pipelining_advertise_hosts? yes (matched "*")
> 250-saiga.carrier.kiev.ua Hello burka.carrier.kiev.ua [193.193.193.107]
> 250-SIZE 52428800
> 250-8BITMIME
> 250-PIPELINING
> 250 HELP
> mail from:<> size=5000 body=8bitmime
> 501 <> size=5000 body=8bitmime: malformed address: size=5000 body=8bitmime may not follow <>
>
> What side in this conversation is wrong?


Based on my reading of RFCs 2821 and 1652, Exim is. You should probably turn
off accept_8bitmime so that it isn't advertised in your SMTP session to keep
such mail from bouncing.

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Tabor J. Wells                                     twells@???
Fsck It!                 Just another victim of the ambient morality