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Re: [EAI] SMTPUTF8 and 8BITMIME

ned+ima@mrochek.com Wed, 15 April 2015 15:01 UTC

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> it seems that a few MTA can be thrown at an email with a EAI RFC5321.mailfrom
> and pass the message fine to other MTA or local delivery, as long as the MTA
> supports 8BITMIME and the RFC5321.rcptto is a standard email address.

> replying to such email is a challenge, but it does not seem any MTA or MUA
> (with 8BITMIME) will complain because the RFC5321.from is an EAI...

> What’s your experience?

Depending on the version and configuration, the Oracle MTA will either accept
such a MAIL FROM address but sanitize the 8bit, or reject it outright.

RCPT TOs containing 8bit are always rejected.

				Ned

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