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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: International character set requirements needed
Keywords: 8-bit data, mail
Message-ID: <1990Dec31.013538.9473@Think.COM>
Date: 31 Dec 90 01:35:38 GMT
References: <1990Dec27.043500.27639@cbnewsk.att.com> <5044@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <1990Dec31.004055.10335@cbnewsk.att.com>
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In article <1990Dec31.004055.10335@cbnewsk.att.com> hansen@pegasus.att.com (Tony L. Hansen) writes:
>System V release 4 mail is completely content transparent. As long as the
>transport media is capable of handling the mail, SVr4 mail will be able to
>get it to you unchanged.

What does it do when sending textual mail to a system that doesn't use
ASCII encoding, e.g. an IBM mainframe, or to a system with a different
newline convention (e.g. CRLF rather than LF)?  SMTP places restrictions on
the characters that may appear in a message to support automated
translation during the transfer process.

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Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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