From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Sep 27 2002 - 05:14:42 CDT
In <3QDMy9uJEwk9IADY@pillar.turnpike.com> Ian Bell <ianbell@turnpike.com> writes:
>On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>>Indeed so, but hardly any servers do that conversion, even though they
>>claim to be 8BITMIME compliant.
>How do you know that? You say that it is exceedingly rare to encounter a
>server that doesn't offer 8BITMIME, so how have you tested
>down-conversion?
My knowledge comes from what I have seen reported on this and other lists.
>Or are you confusing "8bit clean" with 8BITMIME support? The former may
>just not bother testing for 8bit content before relaying or delivery:
>the latter should be applying the rules.
What I hear is that there are a significant number of systems that are
8bit clean, that do not test and downgrade when relaying to non-8BITMIME
systems, but which nevertheless report "8BITMIME" in response to EHLO.
>>But the whole point is that it is exceedinly rare to encounter a server
>>that does not support 8BITMIME in some form.
>How have you determined that?
What I hear, plus the fact that the broken servers mentioned above do not
appear to have caused the sky to fall in.
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