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Subject: Re: 8 to 7 bit conversions (confused and slightly off topic)
From: Ralf Hildebrandt (R.Hildebrandttu-bs.de)
Date: Tue Apr 04 2000 - 06:32:07 CDT

On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 10:14:12PM -0700, learning user wrote:

> He uses elm and sendmail 8.8.6 on the
> origination machine. He also says that he

Sounds like a Sun or HP-UX box. Some commercial Unix.

> can send mail between machines on his network
> without it getting converted, and that
> postfix doesn't understand how to receive
> 8-bit mail which forces the sending machine
> to convert.

See the thread "8bit -> 7bit conversion" in the archive
http://msgs.securepoint.com/postfix/

> Can someone explain what happens when an 8 bit
> message arrives (in general)? Does anyone know
> what might cause this (and more important, how
> to stop it)? Thank you for your help.

Some of the involved mailers strip off the 8th bit, thus breaking things. 

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