josevela@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Jose Angel Vela Avila) (03/01/91)
Does any body out there knows the configurations necesary for sendmail that let me send 8 bit files ?? ( Ultrix 4.0 or 3.0 ) Thanks!! Jose A. Vela A. josevela@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx
jch@dyfed.rdg.dec.com (John Haxby) (03/01/91)
The ULTRIX sendmail does *not* allow 8-bit mail. There are `unofficial' versions (such as one supplied by DEC/Japan) that allow 8-bit mail. The reason is simple. If you include a line with the character '\256' (period with the MSB set, R-with-a- circle in ISO8859-1) by itself, then the message will be truncated at that point by a version of sendmail that isn't 8-bit clean. This is not clever, it corrupts mail messages. Think twice about the simple solutions. -- John Haxby, Definitively Wrong. Digital <jch@wessex.rdg.dec.com> Reading, England <...!ukc!wessex!jch>