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Subject: Re: 8 to 7 bit conversions (confused and slightly off topic)
From: Matthias Andree (madt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de)
Date: Tue Apr 04 2000 - 04:32:04 CDT

learning user <mailaccount200001yahoo.com> writes:

> I am having problems receiving mail from one
> person without getting it converted from 8 bit
> to "quoted-unreadable".
>
> He uses elm and sendmail 8.8.6 on the
> origination machine.

His sendmail sucks or one of the intermediate (check the Received:
headers in the mail you receive) is not 8-bit safe. It's suggested that
the sender updates to sendmail 8.10.0 (or 8.10.1 if he needs SMTP
AUTH).

Postfix can and will handle 8-bit mail. Postfix does not convert. 

-- 
Matthias Andree

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