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Author: W B Hacker
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To: exim users
Subject: Re: [exim] 8BITMIME
Hill wrote:
> Bill. I wonder if you might have more luck receiving the extra
> traffic by converting your servers to support rfc 1149.
>
> ;)
>
> Hill


Well, what with the buffers for keeping that sort of transport 'layer'
in a High Availability Clustered Multi-Processing state, which is
essential for that service - one might be able to have egg in the beer.

:-)

Or guano..

:-(

Probably best to run 'em on separate servers...


rpl '8BITMIME' 'COLDBEER' /usr/local/bin/exim

rpl '8BITMIME' 'RFC_1149' /usr/local/bin/exim

....and restart the listeners, of course ..

Beer is online already. Priorities. y'know...

Oh 'most forgot... W/R that COLDBEER:

That IS a 'submission' port advertising ACCEPTANCE, now!

... not a cooler you can just help yerself to!

CAVEAT: ... NOT RECOMMENDED.

AKA 'Don't try this at home.'

(or anywhere, really..)

tested. working.


Bill

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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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