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Re: [idn] Some comments
- To: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
- Subject: Re: [idn] Some comments
- From: Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 09:11:17 -0800
- Cc: idn@ops.ietf.org
- Delivery-date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 09:17:28 -0800
- Envelope-to: idn-data@psg.com
At 08:42 AM 1/15/2001 +0000, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
>Sorry to bother you with facts, Dave, but Sendmail has done just-send-8
>by default for 8-bit non-MIME messages since version 6.57 in 1993. This
>blatantly violates RFC 1652 and the 7-bit restriction in RFC 821.
"Just do 8-bit" doesn't and didn't work. Those who forced 8-bit onto the
operational framework for all their recipients caused quite a bit of trouble.
That was why an ESMTP option was created, so the receiving SMTP server
could tell the sending server that 8-bit was supported.
d/
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