W B Hacker wrote:
> Ian Eiloart wrote:
>>
> *snip*
>>
>> Well 8bitmime is implemented almost everywhere. The thing is, I can't
>> turn it on without installing a non-Exim smart host to downgrade
>> messages that I send to other Exim sites!
>
> Are you SURE about Exim not being able to handle it on the inbound if we
> were to switch to defaulting it ON?
"Blessed are they who go 'round in circles,
for they shall be known as 'wheels'"
Never mind. Seems 8BITMIME is largely *irrelevant*.
http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html
Sometimes even a blind hog (Ich not DJB) finds an acorn (DJB's pragmatic
note).
I've been trafficing happily in bothway UTF8 AND Chinese plus various
other non-ASCII encoding from Day ONE (4.4X), ditto QMail for many years
before that..
Even tested Chinese UID:PWD (PostgreSQL-resident)
Now and then an issue reading some weird or mixed non-UTF encoding in an
MUA.
Otherwise seamless.
No - that isn't 8BITMIME. Just 8-bit transparent.
Rest is up to the IMAP/POP and MUA.
But seems good enough that there doesn't seem to be a remaining NEED for
8BITMIME, either.
Trying to learn and grown anyway .. just optioned-on:
allow_utf8_domains
Nap time .....
Bill
