Hontvari Jozsef wrote: > I was thinking about this too, I guess most of the work comes from the > requirement, that if you accept 8bitmime, then you have to be able to > convert it to 7bit, because a recipient server may not support 8bitmime.
You are right, although, until recently, thats not the way Postfix went about it :>
The actual decoding and encoding is handled by javax.mail.internet.MimeUtility, so it would be a matter of checking the receiving MTA's EHLO response and running through the body parts to do the conversion and resetting the Content-Transfer-Encoding header.
There are a number of issues with this MIME processing however, such as dealing with incorrect and badly formatted MIME headers. Do you reject an email if is RFC-invalid, or try to send it anyway?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Raw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 10:51 AM
Subject: 8BITMIME support
Hi,
I am curious as to the status of james supporting ESMTP 8BITMIME.
Following a discussion on the
mailing list 2 years back, a bug was filed under http://nagoya.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewIssue.jspa?key=JAMES-52 noting
that 8BITMIME was not
supported (and therefore correctly not advertised in response to EHLO).
I am curious because I have found no problems with 8bit messages passing
through my James 2.20a15,
which is running on a Linux box with a default character set of ASCII. I
am using db repositories in
all cases. Is the problem something like support in file repositories, or
perhaps something more
fundamental?
Thanks, Craig
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