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Posted to server-dev@james.apache.org by Craig Raw <cr...@quirk.co.za> on 2004/02/20 10:51:39 UTC
8BITMIME support
Hi,
I am curious as to the status of james supporting ESMTP 8BITMIME. Following a discussion on the
mailing list 2 years back, a bug was filed under
http://nagoya.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewIssue.jspa?key=JAMES-52 noting that 8BITMIME was not
supported (and therefore correctly not advertised in response to EHLO).
I am curious because I have found no problems with 8bit messages passing through my James 2.20a15,
which is running on a Linux box with a default character set of ASCII. I am using db repositories in
all cases. Is the problem something like support in file repositories, or perhaps something more
fundamental?
Thanks,
Craig
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Re: 8BITMIME support
Posted by Craig Raw <cr...@quirk.co.za>.
Hontvari Jozsef wrote:
> I was thinking about this too, I guess most of the work comes from the
> requirement, that if you accept 8bitmime, then you have to be able to
> convert it to 7bit, because a recipient server may not support 8bitmime.
You are right, although, until recently, thats not the way Postfix went about it :>
The actual decoding and encoding is handled by javax.mail.internet.MimeUtility, so it would be a
matter of checking the receiving MTA's EHLO response and running through the body parts to do the
conversion and resetting the Content-Transfer-Encoding header.
There are a number of issues with this MIME processing however, such as dealing with incorrect and
badly formatted MIME headers. Do you reject an email if is RFC-invalid, or try to send it anyway?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Craig Raw" <cr...@quirk.co.za>
> To: <se...@james.apache.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 10:51 AM
> Subject: 8BITMIME support
>
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I am curious as to the status of james supporting ESMTP 8BITMIME.
>
> Following a discussion on the
>
>>mailing list 2 years back, a bug was filed under
>>http://nagoya.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewIssue.jspa?key=JAMES-52 noting
>
> that 8BITMIME was not
>
>>supported (and therefore correctly not advertised in response to EHLO).
>>
>>I am curious because I have found no problems with 8bit messages passing
>
> through my James 2.20a15,
>
>>which is running on a Linux box with a default character set of ASCII. I
>
> am using db repositories in
>
>>all cases. Is the problem something like support in file repositories, or
>
> perhaps something more
>
>>fundamental?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Craig
>>
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Re: 8BITMIME support
Posted by Hontvari Jozsef <ho...@solware.com>.
I was thinking about this too, I guess most of the work comes from the
requirement, that if you accept 8bitmime, then you have to be able to
convert it to 7bit, because a recipient server may not support 8bitmime.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Raw" <cr...@quirk.co.za>
To: <se...@james.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 10:51 AM
Subject: 8BITMIME support
> Hi,
>
> I am curious as to the status of james supporting ESMTP 8BITMIME.
Following a discussion on the
> mailing list 2 years back, a bug was filed under
> http://nagoya.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewIssue.jspa?key=JAMES-52 noting
that 8BITMIME was not
> supported (and therefore correctly not advertised in response to EHLO).
>
> I am curious because I have found no problems with 8bit messages passing
through my James 2.20a15,
> which is running on a Linux box with a default character set of ASCII. I
am using db repositories in
> all cases. Is the problem something like support in file repositories, or
perhaps something more
> fundamental?
>
> Thanks,
> Craig
>
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