Re: Changing the default for `send-mail-function'

[Bill Wohler]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

> > From: Bill Wohler <address@hidden>
> > Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:03:41 -0700
> > 
> > Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > That's the buffer through which we communicate with the SMTP server,
> > > right?  If so, AFAIK the whole protocol is pure ASCII.
> > 
> > Not if the binary extensions in RFC-3030 are in effect. However, the
> > gnu.org MX server eggs.gnu.org does not appear to have this extension
> > enabled. If you assume ASCII, you need to ensure that the mail server
> > never enables those options.
> 
> Are you talking about BINARYMIME?  If so, isn't the sender (i.e. Emacs
> and specifically smtpmail.el) supposed to request that extension?
> 
> If I'm right, and Emacs needs to request that feature, then this has
> no relevance on the issue at hand, because smtpmail doesn't request
> BINARYMIME and in fact doesn't even support it.
> 
> Or am I missing something?

I believe 8BITMIME would also be a problem too.

You are correct, as long as you control the MTA and don't request the
8BIT extensions, you'll be fine. Just good to be aware of that.

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