From: Victor Duchovni (Victor.DuchovniMorganStanley.com)
Date: Wed Sep 19 2007 - 12:04:32 CDT

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On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 12:47:42PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:

> Also, keep in mind that there is going to be a lot of real 8BIT
> mail, and that it is going to be signed as 8BIT mail, and that
> people will have their signatures broken anyway.

Well, signing systems really should down-convert before signing, whether
they in fact will typically do that, I can't predict.

On the other hand, most receiving systems accept 8bits, so conversion
at the edge is not that frequent. Having an ISP smarthost that does not
announce 8bit support is a bit unfortunate though, in that case one
really has no choice but to down-convert first and then sign.

So I take it you have no enthusiasm even for an an off by default feature
that detects false 8bit advertising and corrects to 7bit?

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        Viktor.

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