Bill.
I wonder if you might have more luck receiving the extra traffic by converting your servers to support rfc 1149.
;)
Hill
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On 21 May 2011, at 19:45, W B Hacker <wbh@???> wrote:
> 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
>
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