On 9/21/2004 1:14, "Brad Knowles" <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org> wrote:
At 11:24 PM -0400 2004-09-20, J C Lawrence wrote:
Are there any extant tools to detect 8bit mail (identified by a Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit or not) and to suitably transform the affected MIME parts (or base message if no MIME) to quoted-printable?
The easy way to handle this is to configure your MTA so that it thinks that it is 7-bit only, and it should do the conversion for you. Sendmail certainly does this, and I'm pretty sure postfix does too. Not sure about any of the others.
Exim by default is configured to not advertise 8BITMIME and to reject offered 8 bit messages. It doesn't try to transcode. And since it doesn't, it can't accept 8 bit messages for relay since it would have to do the conversion if the relay target doesn't accept 8 bit.
If that's an issue in a given installation, then Exim is the wrong MTA choice. Exim is unlikely to be taught to do the conversions.
--John