Wietse Venema via Postfix-users wrote in <4zbtzg0hf2zj...@spike.porcupine.org>: |Wietse Venema via Postfix-users: |> Andreas Kuhlen via Postfix-users: |>> I have two mail servers that use different content transfer encodings |>> for the same content. Based on the configuration, I can't work out |>> why this is the case. |> |> When Postfix bounces an 8bitmime message, then the bounce message |> will also be 8bitmime. |> |> Otherwise, the encoding is chosen by the mail sending software, |> and Postfix is just the messenger. | |The Postfix SMTP client will by default convert 8bitmime to |quoted-printable, if it sees that the next-hop MTA (or SMTP-based |content filter) does not announce 8BITMIME support in the EHLO |response. That is controlled with: | | disable_mime_input_processing | disable_mime_output_conversion | |Postfix may also be configbured to forcibly convert 8bitmime to |quoted-printable. That is controlled with: | | disable_mime_input_processing | force_mime_input_conversion | |I wrote that code over 20 years ago, so there may be more details |that I forget to mention.
But say, why does it seem to not automatically generate the necessary MIME stuff when it reads a non-MIME email? Or is that a miss on my configuration side? And one more question, you just recently have added RFC 2047 support -- how does this go in line with MIME reencoding? (The thing is, you know, i started to program a mailing-list manager years ago, and i wanted to go via exactly the enforced postfix MIME reencoding because the MUA i maintain -- it was supposed to do it, you know, in batch mode, but the software internals are still two-fold, completely separated are composing of a new, and dealing with existing messages, like in 1978, long pre-MIME that is -- i call this the magic "MIME rewrite" since a long time, it hopefully will happen in the forthcoming years -- long story short, *that* batch mode cannot do the reencoding yet, but it really did not work out nicely; i had to stop and did not really try hard by then, however.) --End of <4zbtzg0hf2zj...@spike.porcupine.org> --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) _______________________________________________ Postfix-users mailing list -- postfix-users@postfix.org To unsubscribe send an email to postfix-users-le...@postfix.org
