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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: 8-bit characters in gecos field
To: davidn@freefall.freebsd.org (David Nugent)
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 14:04:22 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199612181348.FAA06937@freefall.freebsd.org> from "David Nugent" at Dec 19, 96 00:48:41 am
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> I've been entertaining the idea of having pw(8) allow 8-bit
> characters in the passwd GECOS field. It was suggested earlier
> that this might cause problems in email, but as far as I can
> determine, sendmail handles this correctly by conversion to
> quoted-printable. Other MIME mailers seem to do much the same
> thing (ie. zmailer 2.99.x). Whether or not this is readable
> on the receiving system depends of course on the character-set
> header, but this becomes more an issue to do with user/system
> configuration.

This assumes that it supports the ESMTP extention "8BITMIME"; the
unextended RFC821 (minimal implementation, no RFC1425 "EHLO")
does not allow 8 bit characters.

You might also see problems with POP3 (but not IMAP4).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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