Re: Whether 8-bit SMTP? And how?

["Ned Freed, Postmaster" <NED@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How about sending whatever 8-bit character translate to a dot when the
eighth bit is stripped? Transmit it by itself on a line. What happens
then?

The notion of "broken" is highly dependent on the input stream you're
sending. I would expect the "typical" stream to cause no trouble regardless
of what the receiver does with the high bit on characters. But this by
itself means nothing; the question is, if you construct an artificial
stream designed to invoke a failure, do you get one. Such streams are
likely to arise in practice if the failure mode is particularly unattractive
(Murphy).

				Ned