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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@messagingdirect.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] problems with marshal
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 10:17:30 +0000
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>>>>> "Boyd" == Boyd Roberts <boyd@planete.net> writes:

    Boyd> he said that MIME would take care of all of that.  i didn't
    Boyd> agree.  even in '92 i think it was pretty safe to say that
    Boyd> most/all? transports were 8 bit.

The transports might be, however the MTAs are *not*. Try throwing
8bit content with NULs at an SMTP server that doesn't advertise (or
with which you haven't negotiated) 8BITMINE. There is an awful lot
of mail software deployed that manipulates [E]SMTP data as C strings,
and throwing a (non-encoded) NUL in there pretty well does it for reliable
end-to-end delivery.

--lyndon