From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jul 02 2002 - 15:11:38 CDT
In <GyKHz7.5rH@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> "Charles Lindsey" <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
>Anyway, my next job is to throw some examples at my sendmail system, and
>see what I can cause to break. We will be better able to evaluate the
>risks of "just sending the 8 bits" if we have a bit more solid evidence.
Yes, it is now clear exactly what sendmail does. Any octet in the range
0x80 to 0x9F is silently discarded in ALL headers before any further
processing takes place :-( .
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