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Re: [Emailcore] Ticket #14: G.7.8. Review different size limits

Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-dane@dukhovni.org> Sun, 18 July 2021 01:56 UTC

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On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 06:09:40PM -0400, John Levine wrote:

> My MTA is qmail which has never recoded stuff on the fly.  Neither
> does Postfix or sendmail, at least not with their default settings.

Actually, given an 8BITMIME message and a nexthop SMTP server that does
not support 8BITMIME, Postfix will in fact (by default) do on the fly
MIME quotable-printable encoding.

    http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#disable_mime_output_conversion

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    Viktor.

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