Re: Whether 8-bit SMTP? And how?

[Keld J|rn Simonsen <keld@xxxxxxxx>]

> >    I also think there are stronger reasons to prohibit implementations
> > that operate in "send 8 bit (high bit potentially set) no matter what"
> > than the one you mention, and they have to do with fouling up the works
> > on receiving hosts that are not robust against that particular form of
> > misbehavior.
> 
> >   --john
> 
> Do you know of any such host(s)?

I know such hosts.

1. some hosts send out IBM 8-bit codepages.
   I know examples of that.

2. Normally receivers strip the 8-bit.
   Thus several commonly used IBM CP characters gets stripped
   to contol characters. I once had such a file with a control
   character in the subject line. It crashesd my terminal.
   At the end I simply removed the message from my mailbox.
   Another message with a control character in the body
   messed up my screen, I then used a 7-bit vi to examine it.
   
Keld