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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@planete.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
References: <20001121193744.53C18199F7@mail.cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] mime
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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 21:04:40 +0100
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From: <presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com>

> Seriously though.  What brain damaged piece of dog
> excrement program would throw away the 8th bit of every
> byte in today's world?

not even sendmail, which qualifies, smashes the 8th bit
off on the receive side.  on the send side it does if
the mailer flag 7 is used.  mailer flag 9 (undocumented)
turns whatever encoding you've got back into an 8 bit
stream (in essense).

i have seen lotus notes V4? ack an EHLO but refuse to
offer 8BITMIME -- useless.