Re: [exim] 8BITMIME

Wolfgang Breyha wrote:
> On 2011-05-20 16:38, Ian Eiloart wrote:
>> On 2011-05-20 12:48, W B Hacker wrote:
>>> C) Most current MUA even if 'fed' 8 bit-anything seem to be predisposed to ass u me the worst, and wrap it as quoted-printable.
>>> In the MUA, not the MTA.
>>
>> They'll certainly do that when an MTA fails to advertise 8bitmime.
>
> Not as certainly as expected. Eg. Thunderbird 3 has not a single line of
> code neither to recognize 8BITMIME nor for sending BODY= in MAIL FROM.
>
> I just checked it in
> mailnews/compose/src/nsSmtpProtocol.cpp
> for 3.1.10.
>
> But since
> mail.strictly_mime
> defaults to false it sends using transfer encoding 8bit regardless what the
> MTA supports.
>
> So one of the major MUAs out there cares even less as qmail about 8BITMIME;-)
>
> Greetings, Wolfgang

SeaMonkey here.

Still enough shared code with T-bird that I'm not even going to look.

Might as well set my servers to advertise:

COLDBEER

Dunno wot RFC covers that, but suspect it would see more traffic than:

8BITMIME


;-)

Bill