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Re: [idn] Re: 7 bits forever!



On Mon, 01 Apr 2002 08:59:19 PST, Einar Stefferud said:
> It is indeed unfortunate the the DRUMS WG did not find a way to solve 
> the 8-bit SMTP problem, but now is the time to get to it.  There 
> should not be too much 7-bit SMTP code to fix by now.

One hidden gotcha is that although most MTA's are probably either 8-bit-clean
or fairly easily rendered so, there is *NOT* a widespread deployment of the
RFC3030 ESMTP extensions.  As a result, you still get bit by the "need a
CRLF pair every 998 characters" problem.
-- 
				Valdis Kletnieks
				Computer Systems Senior Engineer
				Virginia Tech

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