On 2012-05-01 18:55:20 +0300, Riku Voipio wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 12:48:10AM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > > I think it would be useful to describe what issue(s) there are concerning > > 8BITMIME and why this is important. I've found some information [1] about > > this, but it isn't clear what problems are actially *caused* by the lack of > > 8BITMIME support by default in Exim. Is it just slow sending of outbound > > attachments? > > It's both extra traffic (not that much if western encodings) and extra > cpu work. In lesser annoyance, it means that you no longer can read > mailbox files with non-mime capable readers (for example less) with ease, > as there will be qp encodings here and there. People who only use english > only hit the issue when having lines longer than 76 characters.
It might also affect spam detection. Now, the main reason I dislike Exim is http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=485751 Basically, when invoked as sendmail, Exim breaks the sendmail compatibility by keeping the Bcc header, involving security and/or privacy problems. And since this is by design, it won't be fixed. BTW, since it must accept 8-bit mail via this interface, it is also broken as the mail may be sent to a MTA that doesn't announce 8BITMIME, since Exim doesn't know to do the conversion. :) -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120502010917.ga5...@xvii.vinc17.org
