[Mailman-Developers] CTE "base64" due to UTF-8?

J C Lawrence claw at kanga.nu
Mon Jul 19 16:59:16 CEST 2004


On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:05:15 +0100 
Nigel Metheringham <Nigel.Metheringham at dev.intechnology.co.uk> wrote:

> If you do have an 8 bit message, and are trying to send to a non 8 bit
> recipient MTA, and will not transcode, you then have a problem.  You
> can then either just send it (sod you, take this anyway) or bounce it.

Which is particularly pernicious in the case of list servers.  Given
enough 8bit-bouncing MTAs a single post can unsubscribe a poster.

-- 
J C Lawrence
---------(*)                Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.
claw at kanga.nu               He lived as a devil, eh?
http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/  Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.


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