[exim] 8BITMIME

> From: Phil Pennock

> or at some point in the next year I'll drink enough whiskey to
> decide to tell some people where they can stick their idiot 7-bit
> systems and just commit a change defaulting accept_8bitmime to on, then
> after the next release of Exim take a month-long holiday from the
> Internet to avoid the flame-wars until they settle down and everyone
> realises that in fact, DJB is right, Phil Hazel was right to refuse to
> implement protocol conversion and people are making a big fuss about a
> non-issue.

I concur. For example, groups.yahoo.com (with half billion users)
advertises 8BITMIME but doesn't convert, no problem.

The unwanted conversion (by senders' sendmail) because of Exim's default
accept_8bitmime=false was the first problem I had with Exim. :)