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| author | Phil Pennock <pdp@exim.org> | 2012-05-07 04:03:37 -0700 |
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| committer | Phil Pennock <pdp@exim.org> | 2012-05-07 04:03:37 -0700 |
| commit | 9cbad13b652da19396511434b18e88533c8f9901 (patch) | |
| tree | d4b0415fd6438d37a108d17bf5207b86b9f40bed /doc/doc-docbook | |
| parent | c6e95d22d77f480804ddb5c505891206b427dfb1 (diff) | |
Default accept_8bitmime to true.
Some discussion at http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=817
Refer readers to Dan Bernstein's analysis of the issues.
Consensus seen from maintainers is that DJB is right on this point.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/doc-docbook')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt index 0555672dd..2a01a1e5b 100644 --- a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt +++ b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt @@ -12850,14 +12850,23 @@ See also the &'Policy controls'& section above. Those options that undergo string expansion before use are marked with †. -.option accept_8bitmime main boolean false +.new +.option accept_8bitmime main boolean true .cindex "8BITMIME" .cindex "8-bit characters" This option causes Exim to send 8BITMIME in its response to an SMTP EHLO command, and to accept the BODY= parameter on MAIL commands. However, though Exim is 8-bit clean, it is not a protocol converter, and it takes no steps to do anything special with messages received by this route. -Consequently, this option is turned off by default. + +Historically Exim kept this option off by default, but the maintainers +feel that in today's Internet, this causes more problems than it solves. +It now defaults to true. +A more detailed analysis of the issues is provided by Dan Bernstein: +.display +&url(http://cr.yp.to/smtp/8bitmime.html) +.endd +.wen .option acl_not_smtp main string&!! unset .cindex "&ACL;" "for non-SMTP messages" |