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8BIT Mime
Hi,
what is the status of 8-bit MIME support in James?
I read that James handles 8-bit messages correctly:
http://www.mail-archive.com/server-dev@james.apache.org/msg01721.html
and I want to test that...
In com.sun.mail.SMTPMessage there is a method .setAllow8bitMIME(boolean)
but if the server does not respond with 8BITMIME it still uses 7bit
encoding - any ideas for enforcing 8bit MIME with javamail?
cheers
Philipp
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Re: 8BIT Mime
Posted by "Lawrence A. Weber" <la...@yahoo.com>.
Not a problem, except that the relay servers don't particularly care what your requirements are. In any case, I believe javamail and James should support 8-bit in preparation for when (if) the 7-bit-only relay servers disappear. It's never good to be a bottleneck. Just keep it in mind, that the 7-bit servers do exist, so that you don't go crazy trying to figure out why perfectly good code is sending something that is not received correctly.
astrograph <as...@gmx.net> wrote:Hi Lawrence,
the problem is we need a 8Bit MIME compliant e-mail server... the
requirements say so :-(
cheers
philipp
Lawrence A. Weber wrote:
> Hate to mention this but the SMTP 8-bit line seems to be a request, not
> a requirement (like a number of other SMTP lines). So it doesn't really
> matter whether James supports it. This comes from experience of sending
> Japanese emails. There was always a relay server somewhere between the
> US and Japan which would corrupt 8-bit transmissions, so we changed
> to the iso8859-jp character set which used a shift-in/shift-out method
> which could be carried by 7-bits. There probably have been server
> upgrades, but I would be surprised if there weren't any 7-bit only relay
> servers still deployed. 7-bits is safer.
>
> */astrograph /* wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> what is the status of 8-bit MIME support in James?
>
> I read that James handles 8-bit messages correctly:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/server-dev@james.apache.org/msg01721.html
> and I want to test that...
>
> In com.sun.mail.SMTPMessage there is a method .setAllow8bitMIME(boolean)
> but if the server does not respond with 8BITMIME it still uses 7bit
> encoding - any ideas for enforcing 8bit MIME with javamail?
>
> cheers
>
> Philipp
>
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Re: 8BIT Mime
Posted by astrograph <as...@gmx.net>.
Hi Lawrence,
the problem is we need a 8Bit MIME compliant e-mail server... the
requirements say so :-(
cheers
philipp
Lawrence A. Weber wrote:
> Hate to mention this but the SMTP 8-bit line seems to be a request, not
> a requirement (like a number of other SMTP lines). So it doesn't really
> matter whether James supports it. This comes from experience of sending
> Japanese emails. There was always a relay server somewhere between the
> US and Japan which would corrupt 8-bit transmissions, so we changed
> to the iso8859-jp character set which used a shift-in/shift-out method
> which could be carried by 7-bits. There probably have been server
> upgrades, but I would be surprised if there weren't any 7-bit only relay
> servers still deployed. 7-bits is safer.
>
> */astrograph <as...@gmx.net>/* wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> what is the status of 8-bit MIME support in James?
>
> I read that James handles 8-bit messages correctly:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/server-dev@james.apache.org/msg01721.html
> and I want to test that...
>
> In com.sun.mail.SMTPMessage there is a method .setAllow8bitMIME(boolean)
> but if the server does not respond with 8BITMIME it still uses 7bit
> encoding - any ideas for enforcing 8bit MIME with javamail?
>
> cheers
>
> Philipp
>
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Re: 8BIT Mime
Posted by "Lawrence A. Weber" <la...@yahoo.com>.
Hate to mention this but the SMTP 8-bit line seems to be a request, not a requirement (like a number of other SMTP lines). So it doesn't really matter whether James supports it. This comes from experience of sending Japanese emails. There was always a relay server somewhere between the US and Japan which would corrupt 8-bit transmissions, so we changed to the iso8859-jp character set which used a shift-in/shift-out method which could be carried by 7-bits. There probably have been server upgrades, but I would be surprised if there weren't any 7-bit only relay servers still deployed. 7-bits is safer.
astrograph <as...@gmx.net> wrote:Hi,
what is the status of 8-bit MIME support in James?
I read that James handles 8-bit messages correctly:
http://www.mail-archive.com/server-dev@james.apache.org/msg01721.html
and I want to test that...
In com.sun.mail.SMTPMessage there is a method .setAllow8bitMIME(boolean)
but if the server does not respond with 8BITMIME it still uses 7bit
encoding - any ideas for enforcing 8bit MIME with javamail?
cheers
Philipp
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