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

[Brad Knowles]

At 6:14 PM +0200 2004-07-19, Michael Heydekamp wrote:

>>  However, I'm still not convinced that it's Mailman which is doing the
>>  translation, as opposed to your MTA.
>
>  Hmm, to my best knowledge Exim is known to not mangle the body at all.

	In which case, Exim could be a potential reason that might cause 
unknowing recipients to get unceremoniously tossed off the list.

	I can't speak for other MTAs, but I know that sendmail can do 
translation, and will do so by default under certain circumstances 
(e.g., it has 8-bit input and the output is not indicated as being 
8-bit clean).  I believe that the same can be said for postfix, and I 
would have said the same for Exim.

	This seems to me to be a more MTA-like thing to do, whereas I 
would expect Mailman to just take whatever it's given and not perform 
any translation.  Have you found actual code within Mailman to 
perform this translation?

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