Re: [yam] deployment of 8BITMIME?

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Mon, 17 August 2009 12:51 UTC

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qmail, a popular freeware MTA for Unix and Unix-like systems has
supported 8BITMIME at least since version 1.03 in 1998. As a long
time qmail user and the author of a book on the package, I can say
that I have never encountered any interop problems related to
8BITMIME.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor
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