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hansen@pegasus.att.com (Tony L. Hansen) writes:

>< From: heimir@rhi.hi.is (Heimir Thor Sverrisson)

>< I can see no reason at all for some stupid mailers to strip off the
>< eighth bit (including Interactive's version of sendmail).  They don't
>< have to - and should not - interpret the contents of the mail they are
>< transmitting.  This is quite different from the troff situation where a
>< program has to know a lot about it's input set.  So why don't you guys
>< simply open up your mailers and be ready with a 8-bit clean version by
>< the end of 1991!

>1991? Why not now? The System V release 4.0 mail program is completely 8-bit
>clean! (If you can find anyplace within SVr4 mail which isn't, I'll
>personally guarantee that the next version of mail which comes from UNIX
>System Laboratories will have a fix for the problem.)

I have also done patches to sendmail 5.61 and 5.64 to do 8-bit mail.
The patches require that you also have IDA installed.
Actually it handles quite some different 8-bit character sets like
8859-1 8859-2 and the rest of the 8859 family and vendor character
sets like the IBM codepages. In all about 60 character sets are
supported in the current release.

>By the way, the SMTP protocol doesn't permit 8-bit data. This limits mailers
>which must send mail using that protocol.

My package also has provisions for sending 8-bit mail thru 7-bit
SMTP in an "encoded ASCII" mode. 

My package is avaliable in dkuug.dk:pub/sm.8+bit.pa sm5.64.8+bit.pa
and ch.shar by anon ftp. By mail you can get it by mailing

                 mail uunet!dkuug.dk!archive
                 Subject: files pub
                 Names: sm.8+bit.pa sm5.64.8+bit.pa ch.shar

Its about 100 kb. Enjoy!

Keld Simonsen