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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Derek Harding <de...@innovyx.com> on 2008/04/01 02:35:54 UTC

Re: [offtopic] Are 8-bit characters completely illegal in a raw message?

On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 16:32 -0700, SM wrote:
> Hi Vitas,
> At 09:27 31-03-2008, vitas1@itera.ru wrote:
> >So, as I've found in RFC's all header fields in message should be 
> >encoded to 7-bit data. In addition my SMTP server does *not* support 
> >8-bit MIME for incoming e-mail.
> 
> The message body should be 7-bit only as well.  See RFC 2822.

Unless, as has already been mentioned, 8BITMIME is negotiated during the
SMTP transaction.

Derek