Re: [exim] MIME madness

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Author: Ian Zimmerman
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] MIME madness
On 2018-10-28 17:48, Jeremy Harris wrote:

> > Does Exim ever change messages with respect to the MIME encoding of
> > parts, if the MIME ACL is not used? That is, can it take an encoded
> > message, take it apart, and re-encode it (possibly changing the
> > message's bit representation)?
>
> I don't think so. Could still be just corrupting mails without any
> MIME-part involvement, of course.


Since MIME encoding is per-part, and the modifications are still valid
MIME (with the same QP encoding), this is very hard to imagine.
Whatever is responsible for the corruption must be manipulating the MIME
structure.

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