Re: 8-bit news

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From: Kari E. Hurtta
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:53

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In article <berger.724949297@gram> berger@imag.fr (Gilles BERGER SABBATEL) wrote:
> Which restriction?  On SunOs 4.1.2, sendmail transmits 8 bits chars
> without problem, and it do use SMTP.  Obviously, if you send messages to
> 7 bits hosts, the 8th bit will be lost (which give funny chars...), but
> there should not be other problem, unless the software is bugged.

IF you don't put 8 bits chars to address headers !

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From: Kari.Hurtta@Helsinki.FI (Kari E. Hurtta)
Subject: Re: 8-bit news
In-Reply-To: berger@imag.fr's message of Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14: 48:17 GMT
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