Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 23:31:19 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: peter@freefall.freebsd.org (Peter Wemm) Cc: CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-usrsbin@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sendmail/cf/mailer smtp.m4 Message-ID: <199604032131.XAA12265@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <199604030306.TAA00445@freefall.freebsd.org> from Peter Wemm at "Apr 2, 96 07:06:26 pm"
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It seems that Peter Wemm said: > Add the '8' flag to the smtp and esmtp mailers. This causes sendmail-8.7.5 > to behave like the older sendmails when talking to a peer that does not > have esmtp or does not advertise 8BITMIME. The old sendmail "just sent it > anyway", while the 8.7.x series mangle any extended character set mail > by conferting it to quoted-printable or base64. Freefall has been > running this for some time. I'd rather use "define(`confSMTP_MAILER', `smtp8')" instead of this change. You lock the system into always sending 8bit data with it. Setting the default mailer to smtp8 has the same effect but it is more versatile than a global mailer change. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #9: Mon Apr 1 03:18:13 MET DST 1996
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