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From: jch@dyfed.rdg.dec.com (John Haxby)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: sendmail with 8 data bits ??
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.094045.6557@hollie.rdg.dec.com>
Date: 1 Mar 91 09:40:45 GMT
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The ULTRIX sendmail does *not* allow 8-bit mail.  There are
`unofficial' versions (such as one supplied by DEC/Japan) that
allow 8-bit mail.

The reason is simple.  If you include a line with the
character '\256' (period with the MSB set, R-with-a-
circle in ISO8859-1)  by itself, then the message will
be truncated at that point by a version of sendmail
that isn't 8-bit clean.  This is not clever, it corrupts
mail messages.  Think twice about the simple solutions.
-- 
John Haxby, Definitively Wrong.
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