Matthew Brown writes:
> Sam wrote:
> > What he's probably talking about is that when Qmail receives
> > an 8-bit message (a foreign character set), and it gets relayed
> > to a foreign server that is not capable of receiving 8BITMIME
> > mail, Qmail will not downshift the message to 7-bit encoding.
>
> > [snipped: how to set your system up to do this]
>
> > A pain in the ass, and you shouldn't have to do this
> > nonsense. This is something that should be handled
> > automatically by qmail-remote.
>
> Qmail behaves the way it does deliberately; see
>
> http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/1998/02/msg00566.html
>
> for Dan's word on the subject. In essence, his argument is:
>
> 1) 7-bit-only servers and clients are dying out anyway
Next time you get pulled over for speeding, tell the cop that nobody drives
under the speed limit anymore, and see how well that goes.
> 2) Nobody else implements the standard correctly
I wouldn't say that.
> 3) 8BITMIME/quoted-printable is a gross hack and no better a solution than
> getting rid of the last remaining 7bit servers
>
> [apologies if I misstated the arguments]
>
> For example, Sendmail doesn't correctly follow the standard (it does 8->7
> conversion for MIME messages, but not for unlabelled messages containing
> 8-bit characters).
The correct way to handle that is to reject them in the first place.
--
Sam
