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[presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com]

If I were willing to do it correctly, I should have the
smtp program (my only MTA) determine the transfer-encoding
and not marshal.  It only needs to convert if it can't get
an esmtp conection.

Seriously though.  What brain damaged piece of dog
excrement program would throw away the 8th bit of every
byte in today's world?  Smtp's requirement for
7 bit clean was acknowledgement of systems of the time
that really did push messages across serial lines with
parity and/or used the 8th bit in mail files as a signalling
channel.  However, I really don't know of any such these
days.  Every smtp I call up seems perfectly happy to pass
on all 8 bits despite what the RFC says.